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I want to start new django project in already existing folder and obviously get
CommandError: '/home/user/projectfolder' already exists. Is there some way to force startproject command to create project in an existing folder? I have some important data in that folder and also git folder so I don't want to move it somewhere and then move it back.
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Go to the directory where manage.py file of your Django project is present. It is normally the Base directory of your project. In that directory, Press Shift and Right Click at the same time. The from the Right Click Menu, Click on "Open PowerShell window here".
'django-admin' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. To fix this, first close the terminal window and relaunch it with administrator privileges. Once you launch the elevated terminal window change directory to where you wish to start your Django project.
Just use the current directory:
cd /home/user/projectfolder
django-admin.py startproject project .
The use of . just instructs Django to create a project in the current directory while:
django-admin.py startproject
instructs Django to create a project and create the necessary directory
If only the project name is given, both the project directory and project package will be named and the project directory will be created in the current working directory.
This fails because of the existing directory which is not a bug but a constrain in order to prevent accidents.
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You can make too like this:
django-admin startproject name_project path_project
Example:
django-admin startproject example /tmp/example
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