Ok setting it up on vista was impossible… ubuntu went very smoothly except the django.conf part

here’s me conf (anything with double square brackets has been edited… highlighted orange)

The alias’ were the solution for the 404′s on Django’s admin css and javascript. It just couldn’t figure out the symlinks or something… not sure.

ServerName computron

MaxRequestsPerChild 1
<location “/”>
        SetHandler python-program
        PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
        SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE [[application_name]].settings
        PythonPath “['/home/[[username]]/django/www/django_projects’] + sys.path”
        PythonDebug On
</location>

Alias /media “/var/www/media”
<location “/media”>
        SetHandler None
</location>

Alias /admin_media “/var/www/admin_media”
<location “/admin_media”>
        SetHandler None
</location>

<locationmatch “.(jpg|gif|png)$”>
        SetHandler None
</locationmatch>

Getting Django set up to test on a Windows Vista pc.

Problem
When running the setup script, you get the error:

error: package directory 'django' does not exist

Solution:

windows install must change setyp.py line 24
package = dirpath[len_root_dir:].lstrip(‘/’).replace(‘/’, ‘.’)
to
package = dirpath[len_root_dir:].lstrip(‘\’).replace(‘\’, ‘.’)
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3245

Problem:
TemplateDoesNotExist at /admin/

Solution

<Django sources from subversion or tar
archive>djangocontribadminmedia to
C:Python25Libsite-packagesdjangocontribadminmedia
and
<Django sources from subversion or tar
archive>djangocontribadmintemplates to
C:Python25Libsite-packagesdjangocontribadmintemplates

Stop and restart your django server:

Source: http://forums.devshed.com/python-programming-11/django-templatedoesnotexist-at-admin-457043.html

Problem
Can’t run python from the cmd window:
‘python’ is not recognized as an internal or external command…

Solution:
Python was not added to the path.
Control Panel -> Search for “path” -> Click “Edit the system environment variables” -> Environment Variables button -> Edit the System Variable path -> Add “C:Python25″ to the end (separated by semicolons)

Problem:
When following the tutorial you don’t see the Calendar chooser for the datetime column. Investigating with Firebug revealed this error:

monthsOfYear: gettext(‘January Febru… October November December’).split(‘ ‘),

Solution:

Replace all instances of “gettext” with “” in:
C:Python25Libsite-packagesdjangocontribadminmediajscalendar.js
C:Python25Libsite-packagesdjangocontribadminmediajsadminDateTimeShortcuts.js
Source: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/f0abe54d2d1e0313