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Moved a note about django-admin.py errors from Tutorial Part 1 to a new FAQ Troubleshooting page. This is to avoid confusion for beginners.

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help help
models models
admin admin
contributing contributing
troubleshooting

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===============
Troubleshooting
===============
This page contains some advice about errors and problems commonly encountered
during the development of Django applications.
"command not found: django-admin.py"
------------------------------------
:doc:`django-admin.py </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
</ref/django-admin>` from some place on your path, such as
:file:`/usr/local/bin`.

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django-admin.py startproject mysite django-admin.py startproject mysite
This will create a ``mysite`` directory in your current directory. This will create a ``mysite`` directory in your current directory. If it didn't
work, see :doc:`Troubleshooting </faq/troubleshooting>`.
.. admonition:: Script name may differ in distribution packages .. admonition:: Script name may differ in distribution packages
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``django`` (which will conflict with Django itself) or ``test`` (which ``django`` (which will conflict with Django itself) or ``test`` (which
conflicts with a built-in Python package). conflicts with a built-in Python package).
:doc:`django-admin.py </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
</ref/django-admin>` from some place on your path, such as
:file:`/usr/local/bin`.
.. admonition:: Where should this code live? .. admonition:: Where should this code live?
If your background is in PHP, you're probably used to putting code under the If your background is in PHP, you're probably used to putting code under the