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* You may need to login as Administrator, or give the Administrator password when installing some programs, depending on your Windows version and user settings.
== Open a Command Prompt ==
* Open a command prompt window, and keep it open along with your browser. Much of installing Python and using Django is typing commands and hitting '''<enter>'''. Your experience using RailsPython on Windows greatly depends on your making friends with the command prompt window.
* This is also called the command prompt, command window, command-line window, MS-DOS or DOS window.
http://www.wiki.devchix.com/index.php?title=Opening_a_command_prompt_window
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* Go to http://python.org/download/ and download the latest version of Python ''2.7'' (2.7.1 at the time of writing).
 
* Test your Python install in the command prompt using the "-v" version flag:
 
\python27\python.exe -V
 
You should see something like
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== Install Git for Windows ==
* Go to http[https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list the downloads page (akafor GitBash)]
** Click on the top "Downloads" tab
** Download the top .exe file link with the Summary something like "Full installer for official Git 1.7.x.x"
* Run the install.
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== Configure Git ==
* Set up Git with your name and email to tag your code changes. In the command prompt type:
<pre> git config --global user.name "''Your ActualName''" </pre>
* Replace ''Your ActualName'' with your actual name.
and:
<pre> git config --global user.email YourEmail@domain.com </pre>
 
 
* Tip: '''Colors'''
<pre> git config --global user.email YourEmail@domain.com </pre>
<br/>
* Replace ''YourEmail@domain.com'' with your email address.
 
Test it:
 
git config --global user.name
git config --global user.email
 
 
*=== Tip: '''Colors''' ===
To have colored output, in the command prompt type each line followed by '''<enter>''':
 
<pre>
git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status auto
git config --global color.branch auto
</pre>
 
== Install SQLite Manager ==
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* Hit enter to accept blank passphrase (if computer is shared with other people, as in a work laptop, you should create a passphrase). Hit enter again to accept blank passphrase (or enter passphrase again).
 
* Your brand-new public key is now stored at <code>~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub</code> inside your Windows profile.
 
'''Note''': The ''ssh-keygen'' command will give you a bunch of output. You don't have to record that output anywhere.
 
== Django ==
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cd Django-1.2.5
/c/python27/python setup.py install
cd ..
 
== Verify you can create a new Django app ==
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* Run the installer, and now you will find PuTTY in
** '''Start'''->'''Programs'''->'''PuTTY'''
 
'''Now go back to the [https://openhatch.org/wiki/Setting_up_the_web_app#Section_3:_Configuring_your_accounts_on_the_web web app install instructions]'''
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