In this tutorial, I will show you the steps for the first install of a basic website.
C:\Python373>python -m virtualenv venv_wagtail
Using base prefix 'C:\\Python373'
New python executable in C:\Python373\venv_wagtail\Scripts\python.exe
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...
done.
C:\Python373>venv_wagtail\Scripts\activate.bat
(venv_wagtail) C:\Python373>pip install wagtail
Collecting wagtail
...
Successfully built django-treebeard draftjs-exporter
Installing collected packages: sqlparse, pytz, Django, django-taggit, chardet, i
dna, urllib3, certifi, requests, django-treebeard, draftjs-exporter, beautifulso
up4, django-modelcluster, djangorestframework, Willow, six, Pillow, webencodings
, html5lib, Unidecode, wagtail
Successfully installed Django-2.2.3 Pillow-5.4.1 Unidecode-1.1.1 Willow-1.1 beau
tifulsoup4-4.6.0 certifi-2019.6.16 chardet-3.0.4 django-modelcluster-4.4 django-
taggit-0.24.0 django-treebeard-4.3 djangorestframework-3.9.4 draftjs-exporter-2.
1.6 html5lib-1.0.1 idna-2.8 pytz-2019.1 requests-2.22.0 six-1.12.0 sqlparse-0.3.
0 urllib3-1.25.3 wagtail-2.5.1 webencodings-0.5.1
(venv_wagtail) C:\Python373>wagtail start mysite
Creating a Wagtail project called mysite
(venv_wagtail) C:\Python373>cd mysite
(venv_wagtail) C:\Python373\mysite>python manage.py migrate
(venv_wagtail) C:\Python373\mysite>python manage.py createsuperuser
Username (leave blank to use 'catafest'):
Email address: catafest@yahoo.com
Password:
Password (again):
This password is too short. It must contain at least 8 characters.
Bypass password validation and create user anyway? [y/N]: n
Password:
Password (again):
Superuser created successfully.
(venv_wagtail) C:\Python373\mysite>manage.py runserver
Watching for file changes with StatReloader
Performing system checks...
System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
July 09, 2019 - 21:20:46
Django version 2.2.3, using settings 'mysite.settings.dev'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.
Success! mysite has been created