Install a undocumented django-web application [closed]

Question

I'm not too much into Django. However I do want to host an application (http://code.google.com/p/django-paste/) on my root server. Thing is: I don't know how to start it. The Django tutorials I read until now were all pretty basic. Simply starting a manage.py file, editing some parameters and stuff. It seems django-paste here is well beyond that: there is no such file.

I'm pretty dumb so I have to ask: how do start that application? There's no real setup walkthrough or anything...

Answer 1

First you'll have to install Django, and get it working at a minimal level. Afterwards, you just have to tie django-paste into your current Django installation. Since you mentioned you'd gone through the DOCS, I'm assuming you saw how to setup Django for the first time ( if you abstract a bit, this is basically the same as is done in the first Tutorials, but with someone else's code ).

Django installation

1. Add Django files to your PYTHONPATH.
2. Modify the settings file to point to a database.
3. Add django-paste to your PYTHONPATH.
4. Add django-paste to the INSTALLED_APPS array in the django settings file.
5. Add django-paste to the urls.conf file so that the urls point to the
   proper django-paste views.
6. Initialize the database via the manage.py file.