Creating our project

To create a project in a Unix-class system (e.g. Linux, Mac OS X etc.), do as the following example:

/home/epx $ tg-admin quickstart

Enter project name: ajaxfin
Enter package name [ajaxfin]: ajaxfin
Do you need Identity (usernames/passwords) in this project? [no]
Selected and implied templates:
  TurboGears#tgbase      tg base template
  TurboGears#turbogears  web framework

... a lot of messages ...

reading manifest file 'ajaxfin.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'ajaxfin.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
/home/epx $ _

If you run Windows, follow the instructions in TurboGears site documentation.

To open the new project's pages in a browser, run the project as shown in the example:

/home/epx $ cd ajaxfin/
/home/epx/ajaxfin $ ./start-ajaxfin.py
2006-06-12 17:38:11,957 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG: Server parameters:
2006-06-12 17:38:11,958 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.environment: development
2006-06-12 17:38:11,958 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.log_to_screen: True
2006-06-12 17:38:11,958 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.log_file:
2006-06-12 17:38:11,959 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.log_tracebacks: True
2006-06-12 17:38:11,959 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.log_request_headers: True
2006-06-12 17:38:11,959 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.protocol_version: HTTP/1.0
2006-06-12 17:38:11,960 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.socket_host:
2006-06-12 17:38:11,960 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.socket_port: 8080
2006-06-12 17:38:11,960 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.socket_file:
2006-06-12 17:38:11,961 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.reverse_dns: False
2006-06-12 17:38:11,961 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.socket_queue_size: 5
2006-06-12 17:38:11,961 cherrypy.msg INFO CONFIG:   server.thread_pool: 10
2006-06-12 17:38:12,254 cherrypy.msg INFO HTTP: Serving HTTP on http://localhost:8080/
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and open http://localhost:8080 in your favorite browser to check that the service is running well.

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