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<span id="troubleshooting"></span><h1>Troubleshooting<a class="headerlink" href="#troubleshooting" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>This page contains some advice about errors and problems commonly encountered
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<span id="s-troubleshooting-django-admin-py"></span><span id="problems-running-django-admin-py"></span><span id="troubleshooting-django-admin-py"></span><h2>Problems running django-admin.py<a class="headerlink" href="#problems-running-django-admin-py" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<span id="command-not-found-django-admin-py"></span><h3>“command not found: django-admin.py”<a class="headerlink" href="#command-not-found-django-admin-py" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="../ref/django-admin.html"><em>django-admin.py</em></a> should be on your system path if you
installed Django via <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python</span> <span class="pre">setup.py</span></tt>. If it’s not on your path, you can
find it in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site-packages/django/bin</span></tt>, where <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">site-packages</span></tt> is a directory
within your Python installation. Consider symlinking to <a class="reference internal" href="../ref/django-admin.html"><em>django-admin.py</em></a> from some place on your path, such as
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<span id="script-name-may-differ-in-distribution-packages"></span><h3>Script name may differ in distribution packages<a class="headerlink" href="#script-name-may-differ-in-distribution-packages" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If you installed Django using a Linux distribution’s package manager
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<span id="mac-os-x-permissions"></span><h3>Mac OS X permissions<a class="headerlink" href="#mac-os-x-permissions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If you’re using Mac OS X, you may see the message “permission denied” when
you try to run <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django-admin.py</span></tt>. This is because, on Unix-based systems like
OS X, a file must be marked as “executable” before it can be run as a program.
To do this, open Terminal.app and navigate (using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cd</span></tt> command) to the
directory where <a class="reference internal" href="../ref/django-admin.html"><em>django-admin.py</em></a> is installed, then
run the command <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">chmod</span> <span class="pre">+x</span> <span class="pre">django-admin.py</span></tt>.</p>
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<span id="running-virtualenv-on-windows"></span><h3>Running virtualenv on Windows<a class="headerlink" href="#running-virtualenv-on-windows" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>If you used <a class="reference external" href="http://www.virtualenv.org/">virtualenv</a> to <a class="reference internal" href="../topics/install.html#installing-official-release"><em>install Django</em></a>
on Windows, you may get an <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ImportError</span></tt> when you try to run
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django-admin.py</span></tt>. This is because Windows does not run the
Python interpreter from your virtual environment unless you invoke it
directly. Instead, prefix all commands that use .py files with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python</span></tt> and
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python</span> <span class="pre">C:\pythonXY\Scripts\django-admin.py</span></tt>.</p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#problems-running-django-admin-py">Problems running django-admin.py</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#command-not-found-django-admin-py">“command not found: django-admin.py”</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#script-name-may-differ-in-distribution-packages">Script name may differ in distribution packages</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#mac-os-x-permissions">Mac OS X permissions</a></li>
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