From 23272de5dbc9429180e309883ffd021026bd4921 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Malcolm Tredinnick Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:07:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #3159 -- documented how to work around a lack of symlinking functionality on Windows (with respect to django-admin.py). git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@4481 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/django-admin.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/django-admin.txt b/docs/django-admin.txt index 310e8dff0e..4dc168ad45 100644 --- a/docs/django-admin.txt +++ b/docs/django-admin.txt @@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ two things for you before delegating to ``django-admin.py``: The ``django-admin.py`` script should be on your system path if you installed Django via its ``setup.py`` utility. If it's not on your path, you can find it in ``site-packages/django/bin`` within your Python installation. Consider -symlinking to it from some place on your path, such as ``/usr/local/bin``. +symlinking it from some place on your path, such as ``/usr/local/bin``. + +For MS Windows users, who do not have symlinking functionality available, you +can copy ``django-admin.py`` to a location on your existing path or edit the +``PATH`` settings (under ``Settings - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment...``) to point to its installed location. Generally, when working on a single Django project, it's easier to use ``manage.py``. Use ``django-admin.py`` with ``DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE``, or the