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Create a URL Shortener app with Python and Django Easily. Part-1

Create a URL Shortener app with Django 

Part 1. How to set up and activate the virtual environment & installing Django.








As promised in the previous post (How to generate a random string with Python.), I am starting a post series on creating a URL Shortener app with Django and Python.


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Getting Started


INFO: I am using GitBash CLI and if anyone uses it please download and install it following the link below. https://gitforwindows.org/


First, we have to create a virtual environment so that we can isolate our project. Even if there are too many ways to do it,  I am going to use virtualenv to do it.

To create a virtual environment, follow the instructions below.

1. Create a new folder.

To make things easier, we are going to create a new folder to store our project. You can create a folder using the GitBash





2. Activate the Virtulenv.


To create a virtual environment, navigate to the folder you created and open the GitBash terminal.
And run the command below.



command explanation

  1.  cd projects:  navigate to the folder we created (projects)
  2.  virtualenv env: to create the virtual environment. env is going to be the name of the environment we going to create and you can use any name you want instead of env


To activate the environment created, we have to run the following line.




Warning: If you use the windows command prompt, this won't work for you. Installing GitBash will solve the problems and if you don't like to install it you have to find the appropriate command for the windows whenever you run a command.

This will activate the  virtual env

To install Django you can simply use the PIP. If you don't know how to install PIP please read this post: How to install PIP on Windows easily.




This will install the latest version of Django and all its dependencies.





That's it and now we are ready to start our journey. Stay tuned for the other parts of the series.



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