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

From the main menu, choose 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.
  New environment
  - If this option has been selected, choose the tool to be used to create a virtual environment. To do that, click the list and choose Virtualenv, Pipenv, Poetry, or Conda.
  - Next, specify the Location and Base interpreter of the new virtual environment.
    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.
  - If IntelliJ IDEA detects no Python on your machine, it provides the following options:
    Specify a path to the Python executable (in case of non-standard installation)
    Download and install the latest Python versions from python.org
    Install Python using the Command-Line Developer Tools (macOS only).
  Previously configured interpreter
  If this option has been selected, choose the desired interpreter from the list, or (if the desired interpreter is not found), click Add Interpreter and choose the interpreter.
  See Configure a Python SDK for details.
Click Create.

Last modified: 13 February 2023