How to integrate Django and Cygwin?

Question

I have a Windows box with cygwin, python and django installed.

Now I want to run django-admin, but when I do I get the error:

$ django-admin.py
c:\Python26\python.exe: can't open file '/usr/bin/django-admin.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Answer 1

From here

For Windows users, who do not have symlinking functionality available, you can copy django-admin.py to a location on your existing path or edit the PATH settings (under Settings - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment...) to point to its installed location.

hope this helps

Answer 2

I just ran into the exact same problem. I've found that if you already have the windows version of python installed, it seems to get priority over the cygwin version. I solved the problem by editing /etc/profile and changed:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH

...to:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:

...which I think stops cygwin from adding the normal windows path. Once you've got that working, download django into some directory, move into that directory and type:

python setup.py install

I was having problems to begin with because I had omitted the 'python' bit at the start