Installation of Django

If you have not yet installed django on your system, install it using the below command:

$ sudo pip install django
Password:
Collecting django
  Downloading Django-1.11.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl (6.9MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 7.0MB 174kB/s
Requirement already satisfied: pytz in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (from django)
Installing collected packages: django
Successfully installed django-1.11.6

After installation you can check the validity of the Django installation:

$ python -m django --version
1.11.6

What does -m do in the above command:

-m module-name
        Searches sys.path for the named module and runs the corresponding .py file as a script.

To see list of django-admin subcommands:

$ django-admin help

Type 'django-admin help <subcommand>' for help on a specific subcommand.

Available subcommands:

[django]
    check
    compilemessages
    createcachetable
    dbshell
    diffsettings
    dumpdata
    flush
    inspectdb
    loaddata
    makemessages
    makemigrations
    migrate
    runserver
    sendtestemail
    shell
    showmigrations
    sqlflush
    sqlmigrate
    sqlsequencereset
    squashmigrations
    startapp
    startproject
    test
    testserver
Note that only Django core commands are listed as settings are not properly configured (error: Requested setting INSTALLED_APPS, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.)

That's it! Welcome to the Django world. :)

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Install a specific version of NODEJS on linux server:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/957439/how-to-install-a-specific-version-of-node-on-ubuntu-server

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Install NPM packages from http or https:

npm config set registry https://registry.npmjs.org/

Sometimes because of filtering issues you need to download node packages from http so make sure to make it http:

npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/

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