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This is a simple guide on installing a must have SQL database engine for web development. It is often used at the beginning of the journey and I did not find a good guide for it. That made me make myself one and share with others. Hope somebody would benefit from it.

One of main features and troubles for Django projects is the Django version you are using. Example for this would be the occasion of starting project for Django 1.4.x version. Trying to run it under Django 1.7.x would lead to various troubles, counting template changes, misconfiguration errors and so on. Solution is to use virtual environment. The tool for this is called Virtualenv . It is a wrapper for a python interpreter. It enables you to have multiple versions of python packages that run independently. The Virtualenv creates you a standalone environment. Basically it copies and keeps a system Python of yours in a specified directory. All the python packages will be installed there. (In case you have not forgot to activate it first, of course) Lets get started then. We need Virtualenv itself for the first. There are many ways to install it depending on your system . Most obvious to use pip. Your installation command will look something like that: pip install virtualenv Thi...

Django Log File Viewer. This is a PYPI package django-log-file-viewer  documents. Github repo:  django-log-file-viewer@garmoncheg.github.com Usage: Useful to add log files view functionality to your Django admin web site. Instead of using database log files storage, it gives you ability to store/view log files through GUI. It requires a directory with Django log files to function. E.g. directory structure: $ project_dir / logs / : applog . log applog . log . 2012 - 09 - 22 . . . errors . log applog . log . 2012 - 09 - 22 . . . Screenshots: To parse/display these log files you need: 1. Install an app and add it to your settings.py INSTALLED_APPS section: # settings.py INSTALLED_APPS = ( # ... 'django-log-file-viewer' , # ... ) 2. Set UP 2 django variables in settings.py: # settings.py: LOG_FILES_DIR = '/path/to/your/log/directory' # Relative or static path string o...