Django, can't create app in subfolder - django

Question

I'm on windows and trying to create a new app inside a common folder named Apps.
The myApp folder already exists inside Apps. I'm running from the project root:
python manage.py startapp myApp Apps\myApp
and I get:
Error: 'Apps\\myApp' is not a valid app name. Please use only numbers, letters and underscores.
I don't know why that double backslash.
I tried also with a forward slash just to be sure:
python manage.py startapp myApp Apps/myApp
and I get this:
Error: 'myApp' conflicts with the name of an existing Python module and cannot be used as an app name. Please try another name.
I can't understand if it is a Windows or a Python problem.

Answer 1

Try this:
mkdir Apps\newapp
python manage.py startapp NewApp Apps/newapp
And you will to create a app called "NewApp" inside folder "Apps/newapp".

Answer 2

Create your Apps directory from your project's root directory-
mkdir Apps
Move to your Apps directory-
cd Apps
Run python by calling the manage.py in your root project directory-
python ../manage.py startapp newapp
There you go

Answer 3

from the docs:
If the optional destination is provided, Django will use that existing directory rather than creating a new one. You can use '.' to denote the current working directory.
django-admin.py startapp myapp /Users/jezdez/Code/myapp
So try python manage.py startapp myApp ./Apps/myApp or with the full path.

Answer 4

Manage.py file is a thin wrapper of django-admin.py
In case, you want to create a new app in any directory
Try this:
$ cd <directory path>
$ django-admin.py startapp <app-anme>

Answer 5

For django 3.2.9
Create a sub directory Apps to hold all the apps, move into it, create a directory for the app myApp, then come back to root directory
mkdir Apps && cd Apps && mkdir myApp && cd ..
add a __init__.py file (is a python way to treat a directory as a package)
Create a myApp inside Apps sub directory
manage.py startapp myApp Apps/myApp
(in windows, please use backslash)
above two lines of code will create myApp
Now, in settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
# Local
'Apps.myApp.apps.MyAppConfig', # new
]
in ./Apps/myApp/apps.py file, change name='myApp' to name='Apps.myApp' will solve the issue

Answer 6

I had the same trouble on my Mac as well. I did solve it upgrading Django from vervion 1.3 to version 1.4.

Answer 7

As the documentation says you can use the command
django-admin startapp name [directory]
but in the example
django-admin startapp myapp /Users/jezdez/myapp
the documentation does not say that python creates the myapp folder. You should do it before the startapp command.