Create a Django project

Django project is intended for productive web development with Django. IntelliJ IDEA takes care of creating specific directory structure and files required for a Django application, and providing the correct settings.

Create a new Django project

Go to File | New | Project, or click the New Project button in the Welcome screen. The New Project dialog opens.
In the New project dialog, do the following:
- Specify project type Django.
- Specify project location.
- Next, choose whether you want to create a new environment or use an existing interpreter, by clicking the corresponding radio-button.
  Specify the location of the new conda environment in the Location field, or click and browse for the desired location in your file system. The directory for the new conda environment should be empty.
  Select the Python version from the list.
  Normally, IntelliJ IDEA will detect conda installation.
  Otherwise, specify the location of the conda executable, or click to browse for it.
  Select the Make available to all projects checkbox if you want to reuse this environment when creating Python interpreters in IntelliJ IDEA.
  Specify the location of the new virtual environment in the Location field, or click and browse for the desired location in your file system. The directory for the new virtual environment should be empty.
  Choose the base interpreter from the list, or click and find the desired Python executable in your file system.
  Select the Inherit global site-packages checkbox if you want all packages installed in the global Python on your machine to be added to the virtual environment you're going to create. This checkbox corresponds to the --system-site-packages option of the virtualenv tool.
  Select the Make available to all projects checkbox if you want to reuse this environment when creating Python interpreters in IntelliJ IDEA.
  Choose the base interpreter from the list, or click and find the desired Python executable in your file system.
  If you have added the base binary directory to your PATH environmental variable, you don't need to set any additional options: the path to the pipenv executable will be autodetected.
  If the pipenv executable is not found, follow the pipenv installation procedure to discover the executable path, and then paste it in the Pipenv executable field.
  Choose the base interpreter from the list, or click and find the desired Python executable in your file system.
  If IntelliJ IDEA doesn't detect the poetry executable, specify the following path in the Poetry executable field, replacing jetbrains with your username:
  /Users/jetbrains/Library/Application Support/pypoetry/venv/bin/poetry
  C:\Users\jetbrains\AppData\Roaming\pypoetry\venv\Scripts\poetry.exe
  /home/jetbrains/.local/bin/poetry
  Choose the desired interpreter from the list, or (if the desired interpreter is not found), click Add Interpreter and configure an existing interpreter as described on the following pages:
Click Create.

Last modified: 07 September 2023