I am a student and my profesor needs me to install Django on PyCharm.

I made a big folder called PyCharmProjects and it includes like everything I have done in Python.

The problem is that I made a new folder inside this PyCharmProjects called Elementar, and I need to have the Django folders in there but it's not downloading.

I type in the PyCharm terminal django-admin manage.py startproject taskmanager1 (this is how my profesor needs me to name it)

After I run the code it says:

No Django settings specified. Unknown command: 'manage.py' Type 'django-admin help' for usage.

I also tried to install it through the MacOS terminal but I don't even have acces the folder named Elementar (cd: no such file or directory: Elementar) although it is created and it is seen in the PyCharm.

CodePudding user response：

Manage.py its python file after you start your project, you cant call this file until this command:

django-admin startproject mysite

Then run:

python manage.py runserver

And if you want apps in your project run:

python manage.py startapp my_app

CodePudding user response：

First of all, you can't create a project using manage.py because the manage.py file doesn't exist yet. It will be created automatically in the folder taskmanager1 if you run the command below.

You can create a project with the command django-admin startproject taskmanager1

After that you can change the directory to the taskmanager1 folder with the cd taskmanager/ command.

When you changed the directory you can use the python manage.py commando for example if you want to run your migrations or creating an app. python manage.py migrate