django-admin.py

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

With the exception of startproject, all commands listed below can also be performed with the manage.py script found at the top level of each Django project directory.

ACTIONS

cleanup

Cleans out old data from the database (only expired sessions at the moment).

compilemessages [--locale=LOCALE]

Compiles .po files to .mo files for use with builtin gettext support.

createcachetable [tablename]

Creates the table needed to use the SQL cache backend

dbshell

Runs the command-line client for the specified databaseENGINE.

diffsettings

Displays differences between the current settings.py and Django's default settings. Settings that don't appear in the defaults are followed by "###".

inspectdb

Introspects the database tables in the database specified in settings.py and outputs a Django model module.

install [appname ...]

Executes sqlall for the given app(s) in the current database.

makemessages [--locale=LOCALE] [--domain=DOMAIN] [--extension=EXTENSION] [--all] [--symlinks] [--ignore=PATTERN] [--no-default-ignore]

Runs over the entire source tree of the current directory and pulls out all strings marked for translation. It creates (or updates) a message file in the conf/locale (in the django tree) or locale (for project and application) directory.

reset [appname ...]

Executes sqlreset for the given app(s) in the current database.

runfcgi [KEY=val] [KEY=val] ...

Runs this project as a FastCGI application. Requires flup. Use runfcgi help for help on the KEY=val pairs.

runserver [--noreload] [--adminmedia=ADMIN_MEDIA_PATH] [port|ipaddr:port]

Starts a lightweight Web server for development.

shell [--plain]

Runs a Python interactive interpreter. Tries to use IPython, if it's available. The --plain option forces the use of the standard Python interpreter even when IPython is installed.

sql [appname ...]

Prints the CREATE TABLE SQL statements for the given app name(s).

sqlall [appname ...]

Prints the CREATE TABLE, initial-data and CREATE INDEX SQL statements for the given model module name(s).

sqlclear [appname ...]

Prints the DROP TABLE SQL statements for the given app name(s).

sqlindexes [appname ...]

Prints the CREATE INDEX SQL statements for the given model module name(s).

sqlinitialdata [appname ...]

Prints the initial INSERT SQL statements for the given app name(s).

sqlreset [appname ...]

Prints the DROP TABLE SQL, then the CREATE TABLE SQL, for the given app name(s).

sqlsequencereset [appname ...]

Prints the SQL statements for resetting PostgreSQL sequences for the given app name(s).

startapp [appname]

Creates a Django app directory structure for the given app name in the current directory.

startproject [projectname]

Creates a Django project directory structure for the given project name in the current directory.

syncdb

Creates the database tables for all apps in INSTALLED_APPS whose tables haven't already been created.

test [--verbosity] [appname ...]

Runs the test suite for the specified applications, or the entire project if no apps are specified

validate

Validates all installed models.

OPTIONS

--version

Show program's version number and exit.

-h, --help

Show this help message and exit.

--settings=SETTINGS

Python path to settings module, e.g. "myproject.settings.main". If this isn't provided, the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable will be used.

--pythonpath=PYTHONPATH

Lets you manually add a directory the Python path, e.g. "/home/djangoprojects/myproject".

--plain

Use plain Python, not IPython, for the "shell" command.

--noinput

Do not prompt the user for input.

--noreload

Disable the development server's auto-reloader.

--verbosity=VERBOSITY

Verbosity level: 0=minimal output, 1=normal output, 2=all output.

--adminmedia=ADMIN_MEDIA_PATH

Specifies the directory from which to serve admin media when using the development server.

-l, --locale=LOCALE

The locale to process when using makemessages or compilemessages.

-d, --domain=DOMAIN

The domain of the message files (default: "django") when using makemessages.

-e, --extension=EXTENSION

The file extension(s) to examine (default: ".html", separate multiple extensions with commas, or use -e multiple times).

-e, --symlinks

Follows symlinks to directories when examining source code and templates for translation strings.

-e, --ignore=PATTERN

Ignore files or directories matching this glob-style pattern. Use multiple times to ignore more.

-e, --no-default-ignore

Don't ignore the common private glob-style patterns 'CVS', '.*' and '*~'.

-a, --all

Process all available locales when using makemessages..SH "ENVIRONMENT"

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE

In the absence of the --settings option, this environment variable defines the settings module to be read. It should be in Python-import form, e.g. "myproject.settings".

SEE ALSO

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/

or in the distributed documentation.  

AUTHORS/CREDITS

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