Getting up and running with Django as quickly as possible

django-quickly.md

Django Quick Start

Create a directory for Python development

$ mkdir -p ~/sandbox/python
$ cd ~/sandbox/python

Setup a virtual Python environment (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/)

$ sudo apt-get install curl
$ curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/virtualenv/master/virtualenv.py
$ python virtualenv.py [name-of-env]

Install Django

$ cd [name-of-env]
$ . bin/activate
$ pip install django

Resources

• http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/
• http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/linux/

misc.md

Installing Apache and mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

$ sudo apt-get install apache2
$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi