Getting Started with Django: Install, Create, and Run Your First Project
This guide walks you through installing Django on Windows, verifying the installation, generating a new project with startproject, understanding its file structure, applying migrations, and launching the development server to see a working web page, all with clear command‑line steps.
Django is an open‑source web application framework written in Python, based on the MVC (model‑view‑controller) architecture.
To install Django on Windows, open a command prompt and run pip install Django==3.1. The package is placed in Python’s site-packages directory.
Verify the installation by launching Python and executing import django; django.get_version(), which should output 3.1.
Use django-admin startproject hello to generate a new project named hello. The created directory contains __init__.py, asgi.py, settings.py, urls.py, wsgi.py, and manage.py.
Navigate into the project folder ( cd hello) and start the development server with python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000. After applying migrations ( python manage.py migrate), open a browser at http://localhost:8000/ to see the default “welcome to my web~” page, confirming that the Django project runs successfully.
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