Create new django project May 9, 2016 • weznagwama Pretty easy: mkdir ~/newproject cd ~/newproject virtualenv newproject source ~/newproject/bin/activate pip install django django-admin.py startproject newproject . From here, edit your newproject/settings.py vi myproject/settings.py STATIC\_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE\_DIR, "static/") cd ~/newproject ./manage.py makemigrations ./manage.py migrate ./manage.py createsuperuser ./manage.py collectstatic ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000