Django

Create a new project

• First create a main dir django etc..
• cd into directory

django-admin startproject projectname

• this will create the projectname within the main directory

• cd into directory

python manage.py runserver

• To specify a different port

python manage.py runserver 8080

Create a Django App

python manage.py startapp myapp

• this will create an new app in the projectname folder

• cd into my app folder and create a folder called templates
• create an html file in the templates folder
• Link the new template folder to the project
• edit the settings.py file

import os

• Scroll down to "TEMPLATES", edit section DIRS

'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "myapp/templates")]