Re: Problems getting started

I've never set up virtualenv, so I can't speak to that. But, how is
installing Django the same way that I install any other application
more of a risk? If an installer tries to write to /usr/local/bin/,
then it needs elevated permissions to do so. I would assume from that
point on, the remainder of the time, the program runs within the
context of the user who executed it, just like any other shell
commands like tar, ls, mv, rm, python, and so on.

While the web server is running, wouldn't it execute any Django
commands within the context of the web user, like www-data? When I
installed WSGI, I used Synaptic. To use Synaptic, if you start it as
a regular user, you have to give root password. How would is that
different?

You may have very good answers. I'm not saying I'm right and you're
wrong. But, I don't see the problem.

On Mar 7, 4:21 pm, Andre Terra <andrete...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Again, don't install as root, use virtualenv. This will save you headaches
> in the future, and unless you have an inexcusable reason to have Django run
> as root, you shouldn't.
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> Sincerely,
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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:28 PM, backdoc <backdoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think you might need to install as root or sudo.
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> > From memory.....
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> > sudo python setup.py install
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> > Also, try executing "which django-admin.py" at the terminal.  That
> > will tell you the location of the executable.  Basically, I'm curious
> > if it will even find it, as I'm thinking it didn't install at all.  I
> > just installed the 1.4 rc last night on Debian.  I didn't have any
> > issues.
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> > On Mar 7, 8:36 am, Clark <ccr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > After installing Django I am attempting to start a new project.  After
> > > creating a directory for this, I tried using the command: "django-
> > > admin.py startproject mysite".
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> > > but I'm getting the message "-bash: django-admin.py: command not found
> > > ".
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> > > So, I've tried running this:
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> > > "sudo ln -s library/python/2.6/site-packages/django/bin/django-
> > > admin.py /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py" in which i get "file exists"
> > > and I still get the same problem when running the startproject.
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> > > Only other piece of info is that during installation I had a "error: /
> > > usr/local/bin/django-admin.py: No such file or directory".  But I can
> > > cd into that directory and see the django-admin.py file.
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> > > Thanks!
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