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| author | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2007-02-10 09:07:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2007-02-10 09:07:54 +0000 |
| commit | 23272de5dbc9429180e309883ffd021026bd4921 (patch) | |
| tree | e771c6e259ca5eaab0e15173f4dea0a57765f2fc /docs | |
| parent | 4d75c7aa6ef7a477697fbe06658d8bd5ab2d0250 (diff) | |
Fixed #3159 -- documented how to work around a lack of symlinking functionality
on Windows (with respect to django-admin.py).
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@4481 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/django-admin.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/django-admin.txt b/docs/django-admin.txt index 310e8dff0e..4dc168ad45 100644 --- a/docs/django-admin.txt +++ b/docs/django-admin.txt @@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ two things for you before delegating to ``django-admin.py``: The ``django-admin.py`` script should be on your system path if you installed Django via its ``setup.py`` utility. If it's not on your path, you can find it in ``site-packages/django/bin`` within your Python installation. Consider -symlinking to it from some place on your path, such as ``/usr/local/bin``. +symlinking it from some place on your path, such as ``/usr/local/bin``. + +For MS Windows users, who do not have symlinking functionality available, you +can copy ``django-admin.py`` to a location on your existing path or edit the +``PATH`` settings (under ``Settings - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment...``) to point to its installed location. Generally, when working on a single Django project, it's easier to use ``manage.py``. Use ``django-admin.py`` with ``DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE``, or the |