[1.5.X] Fixed #19344 - Documented how to run django-admin in a virtualenv on Windows.

Thanks Hourann Bosci for the patch.

Backport of 1e5b0fc4d0 from master
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Tim Graham 2012-12-15 09:25:54 -05:00
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@ -53,24 +53,7 @@ code, then run the following command:
django-admin.py startproject mysite
This will create a ``mysite`` directory in your current directory. If it didn't
work, see :doc:`Troubleshooting </faq/troubleshooting>`.
.. admonition:: Script name may differ in distribution packages
If you installed Django using a Linux distribution's package manager
(e.g. apt-get or yum) ``django-admin.py`` may have been renamed to
``django-admin``. You may continue through this documentation by omitting
``.py`` from each command.
.. admonition:: Mac OS X permissions
If you're using Mac OS X, you may see the message "permission denied" when
you try to run ``django-admin.py startproject``. 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 ``cd`` command) to the directory where :doc:`django-admin.py
</ref/django-admin>` is installed, then run the command
``sudo chmod +x django-admin.py``.
work, see :ref:`troubleshooting-django-admin-py`.
.. note::