Notes on starting a Django 1.9 project

django_start.md

Initialisation...

• django-admin startproject site
• python manage.py startapp appname

Views and URLs...

• Edit appname/views.py
• Edit appname/urls.py
• Edit site/urls.py

Migrate...

• python manage.py migrate

Register the app...

• Edit site/settings.py INSTALLED_APPS to include 'appname.apps.AppnameConfig'

Models...

• Edit appname/models.py
• python manage.py makemigrations appname
• python manage.py migrate

Enable admin activity...

• python manage.py createsuperuser
• Edit appname/admin.py

Templates...

• Create these in appname/templates/appname/

User authentication...

• mkdir site/templates/registration
• Create templates login.html and logged_out.html
• Edit site/urls.py to include:

    url(r'^', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),

• Edit site/settings.py to include:

    'DIRS': ['site/templates']  # inside the TEMPLATES dictionary
    
    LOGIN_URL = '/login/'
    LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'

• Guard views with @login_required