#6695: how to install: site-packages not where the document says it is on OS X
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Reporter: Michael S. | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Component: Documentation
Version: 0.96 | Keywords:
Stage: Unreviewed | Has_patch: 0
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The following two paragraphs are included in an effort to get past the
spam filter:
{{{
If you just want to experiment with Django, skip ahead to the next
section; Django includes a lightweight web server you can use for testing,
so you won't need to set up Apache until you're ready to deploy Django in
production.
If you want to use Django on a production site, use Apache with
mod_python. mod_python is similar to mod_perl -- it embeds Python within
Apache and loads Python code into memory when the server starts. Code
stays in memory throughout the life of an Apache process, which leads to
significant performance gains over other server arrangements. Make sure
you have Apache installed, with the mod_python module activated. Django
requires Apache 2.x and mod_python 3.x
}}}
The how to install documentation at:
h ttp://www.djangoproject.co m/documentation/install/
(URL broken in an attempt to get past the spam filter)
says that if django is installed via "setup.py install" django will be
installed as a django subdirectory of the site-packages directory. It
further suggests that to find the site-packages directory, one should run
the following command:
python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print
get_python_lib()"
However, this seems to produce the wrong output on OS X 10.5: the output
it gives is:
{{{
$ python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print
get_python_lib()"
/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages
}}}
but the actual directory django was installed in is:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5
/site-packages
(and this isn't a symlink to the other.)
More text in an effort to get past the spam filter:
{{{
If you plan to use Django's manage.py syncdb command to automatically
create database tables for your models, you'll need to ensure that Django
has permission to create and alter tables in the database you're using; if
you plan to manually create the tables, you can simply grant Django
SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE permissions. On some databases, Django
will need ALTER TABLE privileges during syncdb but won't issue ALTER TABLE
statements on a table once syncdb has created it.
}}}
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