before start

• install python

• we are going to installed Django in virtual environment not in main machine or host machine .

first to create virtual environment

python3 -m venv .venv

# for windows
# python -m venv .venv

# to activate the virtual environment
source .venv/bin/activate

# for windows
# .venv\Scripts\activate

second way and i use this -

• we create virtual environment in python venv here we use uv because uv An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver i installed uv on local machine (currently).

# you this cmd in both os system (macOs and window)
pip install uv 
# to create a virtual environment
uv venv

# activation commands are same as above

# On macOS and Linux.
source .venv/bin/activate

# On Windows.
.venv\Scripts\activate

• then activate virtual environment

• download Django with this cmd uv pip install Django

package list or installed multiple package

#  package list 
pip list 
or
uv pip list 

# create package list 
pip list > fileName.txt
or 

uv pip list > fileName.txt
# good practice is 
pip list > requirements.txt
or 
uv pip list > requirements.txt

# install multiple package 
uv pip install -r fileName.txt
or
pip install -r fileName.txt

create Django project

django-admin startproject <project-name>

.venv folder or virtual environment folder and your project folder should be in same line Django create sub folder with same name folder inside the folder project folder with manage.py

run the python server

come to file project folder

python manage.py runserver 

# if you get this error (Error: You don't have permission to access that port.) try to change the port
python manage.py runserver <change-port>

this will work if you want to want some specific port and this is not available then read this blog blog