Smart Map in Python Tutorials - Creating a GeoDjango Application Skeleton

Welcome to the Smart Map In Python Tutorial Series. In the previous tutorial we downloaded the ATOM IDE installation file, and installed it using the Ubuntu Software Center. After that we opened our ATOM IDE for the first time and installed some external packages to help us in our development process. Lastly we verified that our embedded terminal was functioning.

In this tutorial we will be creating our GeoDjango application skeleton. After we have created our application skeleton, we will open the project in our ATOM IDE. Once our project is open we will run the server, and test if our project was created and installed successfully. We will be expecting a web page with a message telling us that Django was installed successfully.

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Step 1: Open the Atom IDE from the start menu

Step 2: Open the terminal in the bottom pane

Step 3: Change to root user

~$ sudo bash

Step 4: Navigate to the EBISYS-Tutorials folder on your desktop

~$ cd ~/Desktop/EBISYS-Tutorials/

Step 5: Activate the virtual environment

~$ source venv/bin/activate

Step 6: Change into the WaterWatch folder

~$ cd WaterWatch

Step 7: Create the waterwatch project

~$ django-admin.py startproject waterwatch .

Step 8: Verify that the project as well as manage.py has been created

~$ ls

Step 9: Verify that the settings.py has been created inside our project folder

~$ cd waterwatch

~$ ls

Step 10: Go back to the WaterWatch folder

~$ cd ..

Step 11: Create the waterwatch app

~$ python manage.py startapp waterwatchapp

Step 12: Verify that the waterwatch app has been created

~$ ls

Step 13: Change into the waterwatchapp folder

~$ cd waterwatchapp

Step 14: Verify that our app files have been created

~$ ls

Step 15: Go back into the Desktop 

~$ cd ..

~$ cd ..

~$ cd ..

Step 16: Change the permissions of the EBISYS-Tutorials folder and sub-folders, in order to open the project in the Atom IDE

~$ sudo chmod 777 -R EBISYS-Tutorials/

Step 17: Open the project folder in the Atom IDE

Step 18: Change back into the WaterWatch folder

~$ cd EBISYS-Tutorials/WaterWatch/

Step 19: Start the Django server

~$ python manage.py runserver

Step 20: Enter the development server url address into the browser, and verify that Django was successfully installed.

That is about all we need to cover for creating a GeoDjango application skeleton. I hope you enjoyed it and it will add some value to the projects you are currently busy with.

Stay tuned for the next tutorial in the Smart Map in Python Tutorial Series where we will be adding GIS support to our GeoDjango application.