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diff --git a/docs/faq/troubleshooting.txt b/docs/faq/troubleshooting.txt index d851a0546a..08aafdbb5c 100644 --- a/docs/faq/troubleshooting.txt +++ b/docs/faq/troubleshooting.txt @@ -5,50 +5,34 @@ Troubleshooting This page contains some advice about errors and problems commonly encountered during the development of Django applications. -.. _troubleshooting-django-admin-py: +.. _troubleshooting-django-admin: -Problems running django-admin.py -================================ +Problems running django-admin +============================= -"command not found: django-admin.py" +"command not found: django-admin" ------------------------------------ -:doc:`django-admin.py </ref/django-admin>` should be on your system path if you +:doc:`django-admin </ref/django-admin>` 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 your Python installation. Consider symlinking to :doc:`django-admin.py +within your Python installation. Consider symlinking to :doc:`django-admin </ref/django-admin>` from some place on your path, such as :file:`/usr/local/bin`. -Script name may differ in distribution packages ------------------------------------------------ - -If you installed Django using a Linux distribution's package manager -(e.g. ``apt-get`` or ``yum``) ``django-admin.py`` may have been renamed to -``django-admin``; use that instead. +If ``django-admin`` doesn't work but ``django-admin.py`` does, you're probably +using a version of Django that doesn't match the version of this documentation. +``django-admin`` is new in Django 1.7. Mac OS X permissions -------------------- If you're using Mac OS X, you may see the message "permission denied" when -you try to run ``django-admin.py``. This is because, on Unix-based systems like +you try to run ``django-admin``. This is because, on Unix-based systems like OS X, a file must be marked as "executable" before it can be run as a program. To do this, open Terminal.app and navigate (using the ``cd`` command) to the -directory where :doc:`django-admin.py </ref/django-admin>` is installed, then -run the command ``sudo chmod +x django-admin.py``. - -Running virtualenv on Windows ------------------------------ - -If you used virtualenv_ to :ref:`install Django <installing-official-release>` -on Windows, you may get an ``ImportError`` when you try to run -``django-admin.py``. This is because Windows does not run the -Python interpreter from your virtual environment unless you invoke it -directly. Instead, prefix all commands that use .py files with ``python`` and -use the full path to the file, like so: -``python C:\pythonXY\Scripts\django-admin.py``. - -.. _virtualenv: http://www.virtualenv.org/ +directory where :doc:`django-admin </ref/django-admin>` is installed, then +run the command ``sudo chmod +x django-admin``. Miscellaneous ============= |