How to activate Virtual Environment in DJango

Question

I am currently on Windows and the Venv is not getting activatedUnactivated ENV, Is there any way to fix this. Thanking you guys in advance! Help out a newbie!

Answer 1

In windows: Press Windows (or Windows+R) and then type “cmd”: Run the Command Prompt in normal mode.

1. cd C:\Users\user\Desktop\UserDjangoProject> pip install virtualenv
2. For Create a venv run this virtualenv -p python3 venv
3. Activate virtualenv venv\Scripts\activate
4. It will look like this (venv) C:\Users\user\Desktop\UserDjangoProject>
5. Then run pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Run the django project run this./manage.py runserver

Answer 2

In Linux/Mac, go to the project folder (in which, there should be env folder created).

. my_env_name/bin/activate

In Windows, go to the project folder (in which, there should be env folder created).

my_env_name\Scripts\activate