For information on how to use this project template, check out the wiki.

You've cloned the repo or started a new project with the startproject command. Here's how you actually get started developing. I'm assuming you already have pip installed.

1. Install virtualenv

    pip install virtualenv
   

2. Then, start a virtualenv in the project directory.

    $ virtualenv .
    $ . bin/activate
   

3. Install the project requirements.

    ({{ project_name }}) $ pip install -r requirements.txt
    # wait for a couple of minutes, hopefully nothing goes wrong!
   

4. Link the local project settings to local_settings.py.

    ({{ project_name }}) $ ln -s conf/settings/local.py local_settings.py
   

5. Make manage.py executable and sync your local database.

    ({{ project_name }}) $ chmod +x manage.py
    ({{ project_name }}) $ ./manage.py syncdb
   

6. Start the server.

    ({{ project_name }}) $ sudo ./manage.py runserver
    Validating models...
    0 errors found
   
    Django version 1.5, using settings '{{ project_name }}.settings'
    Running django-devserver 0.5.0
    Threaded django server is running at http://0.0.0.0:80/
    Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
   

I generally map "local.{{ project_name }}.com" to 127.0.0.0 with my DNS service. If you haven't yet registered a domain, add the following line to your /etc/hosts file.

127.0.0.1 local.{{ project_name }}.com

After you've done that, open your browser and navigate to "http://local.{{ project_name }}.com/".