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authorJacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org>2007-02-26 20:51:21 +0000
committerJacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org>2007-02-26 20:51:21 +0000
commitb9522d0a521a7684aaf3aae2d7a9d0aaab5b3974 (patch)
tree53974d690d5c74f3986f7d9c686b573973358175 /docs
parentf3cc581f3ae591adf0d2dcf201a3d08e5cddef46 (diff)
Fixed #2592: Added a warning to tutorial 1 about not naming your project "site" or "django" or anything else similarly boneheaded.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@4618 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ From the command line, ``cd`` into a directory where you'd like to store your
code, then run the command ``django-admin.py startproject mysite``. This
will create a ``mysite`` directory in your current directory.
+.. note::
+
+ You'll need to avoid naming projects after built-in Python or Django
+ components. In particular, this means you should avoid using names like
+ ``django`` (which will conflict with Django itself) or ``site`` (which
+ conflicts with a built-in Python package).
+
(``django-admin.py`` should be on your system path if you installed Django via
``python setup.py``. If it's not on your path, you can find it in
``site-packages/django/bin``, where ``site-packages`` is a directory within