add documentation solving "permission denied" with start-project on OSX

[jacob@…]

I followed these instructions to the letter, but I get "Permission Denied" when I try to run "django-admin.py startproject". Maybe it would help to add a brief section on fixing OS X permissions if the installer doesn't set them properly.

[Simon G. <dev@…>]

What OSX permissions problems? What did you need to change to get it to work? Were you running start-project in a directory that you had access to?

Please reopen this if you can give more info, thanks.

[paul@…]

I'm not the original reporter, but I've just encountered this problem.

Mac OS X 10.4.10 (Intel)
Python 2.3.5 (#1, Aug 19 2006, 21:31:42)

Steps taken:

1. Download Django 0.96 (​http://www.djangoproject.com/download/0.96/tarball/) into /Users/pauldwaite/Desktop/

2. {{{

cd ~/Desktop
tar xzvf Django-0.96.tar.gz
cd Django-0.96
sudo python setup.py install
}}}

After this, /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/django/ is present and correct. But /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py has the permissions -rw-r--r--, so this command:

/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject mysite

Returns "Permission denied", even when the user has permissions for the directory they're in.

Adding execute permissions for django-admin.py's group (i.e. admin) fixes this problem:

sudo chmod g+x /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py

[paul@…]

Sorry, I should have previewed. Step 2 above should have looked like this:

2. Run these commands:

   cd ~/Desktop
   tar xzvf Django-0.96.tar.gz
   cd Django-0.96
   sudo python setup.py install
   

[jacob@…]

Sorry I never followed up. I was installing the official 0.96 version on 10.4.9 (PowerPC). The installer puts django in /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages. I ended up installing the dev. version from SVN in my home directory and creating a symbolic link, which worked fine.

[paul@…]

I deleted Django, and installed Python 2.5.1 using the Mac OS X installer provided by python.org. This also fixes the problem.

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[Chris Beaven]

I'm not sure it's necessary but I guess if it helps someone during install...

[James Bennett]

Tutorial patch explaining how to fix permissions issue

[James Bennett]

I've attached a patch to the first part of the tutorial, since that's the place where people are most likely to trip up.

[Adrian Holovaty]

(In [6224]) Fixed #4245 -- Added documentation about permission error on OS X. Thanks, jacob@… and ubernostrum and others