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Not able to install django and use an existing django project

I am studying Django for the first time and everything was going well until the last day. Today when I tried opening my Django project, the terminal returns an error saying :-
Unable to create process using
'C:\Users\User1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe manage.py runserver'
Thinking that it might be an issue with the virtual env, I tried checking my Python Interpreter to make sure I am currently in my venv.
Fortunately, I am currently using my venv but Pycharm indicates me to Install Python Packaging Tools.
I tried the link to install it but it notifies a Non Zero Exit Code(101) and Invalid Python SDK error.
Googling for the error asked me to check the path in Environment Variables where two are present -
C:\Users\User1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\
C:\Users\User1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts\
Recently I had added MingW Compiler to the path and that was it. I've never touched the path of Python.
I would like to mention that there are no errors in creating a new virtual envirnoment nor activating it. But things get worse when I try to pip install django. CMD tells that unable to create process.
Please help! I am actually stuck with my project.

Happy to say that I have fixed the issue.
Steps followed include :
Uninstalled Python,Deleted Path,Restarted my pc
Downloaded and Installed Python 3.10.2 from the official site.
Upgraded pip
Installed virtualenv using pip install virtualenv
Tested it creating env using - py -m venv "environment name"
pip install django works + started a project and the setup was successful.

First, try to run any python file (not in your project).
If it works, then the problem is with your django project or the env (try to create a new env and move your files to it).
At last, I think you should reinstall python; this will fix the problem I guess.

Installing Django and modules in virtual environment

My question is do i have to install django every single time in my virtual environment in order to run my python files? and is this taking up bunch of space on my machine? My project also uses "matplotlib" and every virtual environment i create it also asks me to import the matplotlib module too. its getting annoying. do i have to do this every time?
Im new to Django. I wanted to run some python files in django but they weren't working, so after some research i found out i needed to run my pycharm project in a virtual environment in order to run these python files.
my folders look like this pycharmProjects -> my project
I enter pycharmProjects and I set up virtual environment using "pienv shell". Then i run "python3 manage.py runserver". It turns out i must install django in the virtual environment before the files run.

Short answer is no, you don't have to use a virtual environment at all and can install your dependancies globally instead. However you will soon find that it will cause a lot of issues. The main reason you would create a virtual environment is to give control of your dependancies and prevent bugs that could be caused because of them having their wires crossed between projects.

Short answer yes.
If you create a virualenv you have to install all packages, that your program needs.
Long answer:
You could install django system wide and then create a virtualenv with the option
--system-site-packages then django would be used from your globally installed python.
(Or you install everything just in your global python, put I personally don't think this is good practice)
If you work with many different projects I think you will avoid a lot of trouble if you use one virtualenv per project.
Trouble meaning that one project breaks, because one pip install for another project changed the version of one package and one project can't handle the newer version.
I would recommend to create a requirements.txt file for each project, that lists the dependencies then you can create the virtualenv with following command
pip install -r requirements.txt
if you have requirement.txt files, then you can create virtualenvs rather quickly if going back to an old project and you can delete the virtualenvs whenever you run out of disk space. If you want to be an the safe side, type pip freeze > pipfreeze.txt prior to deleting the virtualenv and use pip install -r pipfreeze.txt if you want to create one with the same modules and the same versions.
You also might want to look at direnv or autoenv if working on a linux like system.
This will automatically switch to the required virtualenv when changing to a project's working directory.

Changing Python Packages Path for Django Application

I'm currently hosting with a dreamhost shared VPS. I do not have sudo rights. I want to install django packages but I cannot to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ because python is root access only. I have setup a directory in my user directory also called dist-packages to which I have copied all my packages to. I want to use the packages in the dist-packages directory I created to build my django app. Is possible to use my packages? I'm looking for a work around. I do have virtual python env installed, is there a way to use it maybe?
Python 2.7
Django 1.9
My current setup
/home/myuser/mydomain.com/
env/
myApp/
passenger_wsgi.py
public/
How do I setup the env?

You should be using virtualenv for sure(I'm surprised that you are still looking for a work around). It's really inconvenient to use default python for everything. virtualenv will create an isolated python directory of your choice and install everything in there. When you want to use it, just "activate" it then you are automagically in that python environment.
It's almost trivial to learn how to create one, you can even create as many as you like, each with different packages installed. Check their doc for more details.

Copying Django project to root server is not working

I hope you can help me.
I have been building this webshop for the company I work for with Django and Lightning Fast Shop.
It's basically finished now and I have been running it of a virtual ubuntu machine on my PC. Since it got annoying leaving my PC on the entire time, so others could access the site, I wanted to deploy it on a root server. So I got a JiffyBox and installed ubuntu on it.
I managed to get Gnome working on it and to connect to it with VNC. I then uploaded my finished project via FTP to the server.
Now I thought I would only need to download Django-LFS, create a new project and replace the project files with my finished ones.
This worked when I tested it on my virtual machine.
To my disappointment it did not work on the root server. When I tried running "bin/django runserver" I got an error message saying "bash: bin/django: Permission denied" and when I try it with 'sudo' I get "sudo: bin/django: command not found"
I then realized that I had downloaded a newer version of Django-LFS and tried it with the same version to no avail.
I am starting to get really frustrated and would appreciate it very much if somebody could help me with my problem.
Greetings, Krytos.

I have no idea what a "root" server is. But you don't deploy Django by just copying the files: you need to configure the webserver. The documentation has a very comprehensive explanation.

I know some of this tip can be obvious but never knows:
Do you update all your settings in settings.py ? (paths to static files, path to project...)
Wich server are you using ? django server ? apache ? nginx ?
Do you have permissions over all file in the project ? You should check that the owner of the files is the user you have, not root. If the owner is root you'll have this permissions problem in every file that is owned by root.
Are you using uwsgi ?
Have you installed all the apps you got in your VM ?
Have you installed the SAME version you got in your VM ?
When I move a project from VM to real server I go over this steps:
Review settings.py and update paths
Check permissions in the folder that the web server may use
I have a list with the packages and versions in a txt file, let's call it packages.txt
I install all that packages using pip install -r packages.txt
I allways use apache/nginx, so I have to update the virtualhost to the new paths
If I'm using uwsgi, update uwsgi settings
To downgrade some pip packages you may need to delete the egg files, because if you uninstall a package and reinstall it, although your using pip install package==VERSION, if you have a package already downloaded, pip will install this one, even if the VERSION is different.
To check actual version of pip packages use pip freeze
To export all pip packages to a file, to import them in other place: pip freeze > packages.txt nad to install packages from this file pip install -r packages.txt

Importing and debugging a Python Django project made in a different environment

I am working on a Django project that was created by another developer on a different machine. I see that in the root of the application, there is a .virtualenv directory. Is it possible to simply setup this project locally on my Windows machine using the project settings and Python version (the app uses 2.7), so that I can run it like a local Django application so debugging is feasible?
I have access to the development web server and have copied the full source of the app down to my Win7 machine but cannot seem to get things setup correctly to run the app locally so I can debug.
I currently have Python 2.7, 2.7.5 and 3.3.2 installed on my local dev machine. I would call myself pretty new to Django and Virtualenv.
If anyone has any guidance on how I can get my environment straitened out so I can run the app with debugging, I would be very thankful.
Thank you in advance.

Using a virtualenv environment created on a different machine is not recommended. There are things hard-wired for the particular system it was created on, and some apps may have components compiled for that particular system.
You should create a new virtualenv environment on your machine, install dependencies and move the Django project there.
Note on installing dependencies - there might be a file named requirements.txt somewhere. If it's there and it's kept up to date you can install all the dependencies by running a single command while in your virtualenv:
pip -r requirements.txt install
If you can't find it ask the other developer to create it. He just need to do this inside his own environment:
pip freeze > requirements.txt

I once faced the same problem and it took me so much time to configure another environment that I eventually had to create a VM with the same version of OS and libraries. I then made a raw copy of the project and it worked fine.