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FAQ: General
Why does this project exist?
What does “Django” mean, and how do you pronounce it?
Is Django stable?
Does Django scale?
Who’s behind this?
Which sites use Django?
Django appears to be a MVC framework, but you call the Controller the “view”, and the View the “template”. How come you don’t use the standard names?
<Framework X> does <feature Y> – why doesn’t Django?
Why did you write all of Django from scratch, instead of using other Python libraries?
Is Django a content-management-system (CMS)?
How can I download the Django documentation to read it offline?
Where can I find Django developers for hire?
FAQ: Installation
How do I get started?
What are Django’s prerequisites?
Do I lose anything by using Python 2.3 versus newer Python versions, such as Python 2.5?
Can I use Django with Python 3.0?
Will Django run under shared hosting (like TextDrive or Dreamhost)?
Should I use the official version or development version?
FAQ: Using Django
Why do I get an error about importing DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE?
I can’t stand your template language. Do I have to use it?
Do I have to use your model/database layer?
How do I use image and file fields?
How do I make a variable available to all my templates?
FAQ: Getting Help
How do I do X? Why doesn’t Y work? Where can I go to get help?
Why hasn’t my message appeared on django-users?
Nobody on django-users answered my question! What should I do?
I think I’ve found a bug! What should I do?
I think I’ve found a security problem! What should I do?
FAQ: Databases and models
How can I see the raw SQL queries Django is running?
Can I use Django with a pre-existing database?
If I make changes to a model, how do I update the database?
Do Django models support multiple-column primary keys?
How do I add database-specific options to my CREATE TABLE statements, such as specifying MyISAM as the table type?
Why is Django leaking memory?
FAQ: The admin
I can’t log in. When I enter a valid username and password, it just brings up the login page again, with no error messages.
I can’t log in. When I enter a valid username and password, it brings up the login page again, with a “Please enter a correct username and password” error.
How can I prevent the cache middleware from caching the admin site?
How do I automatically set a field’s value to the user who last edited the object in the admin?
How do I limit admin access so that objects can only be edited by the users who created them?
My admin-site CSS and images showed up fine using the development server, but they’re not displaying when using mod_python.
My “list_filter” contains a ManyToManyField, but the filter doesn’t display.
How can I customize the functionality of the admin interface?
The dynamically-generated admin site is ugly! How can I change it?
FAQ: Contributing code
How can I get started contributing code to Django?
I submitted a bug fix in the ticket system several weeks ago. Why are you ignoring my patch?
When and how might I remind the core team of a patch I care about?
But I’ve reminded you several times and you keep ignoring my patch!
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