Which command is used to create a superuser in Django?

 Overview

We do not create a separate “Admin” page or provide an authentication feature because Django provides an “Admin” panel for its users. Which command is used to create a superuser in Django. Furthermore, we must migrate to our project before using this feature; otherwise, we will not be able to create a database of superusers.

Simple steps to follow

We can create a superuser by writing the following command:

python3 manage.py createsuperuser

We then write the following credentials step by step. We can fill these credentials according to our preferences:

• Username: testAdminUser

• Email address: test@gmail.com

• Password: ********

• Password (again): ********

Note: After filling a row, press “Enter” to fill the other information.

Now the superuser will be created if we have entered all fields correctly.

Creation of superuser

Django’s “Hello World” application

A sample “Hello World” Django application is given below. We can follow the given steps to test our knowledge:

• Start the terminal by clicking on the “Run” button.
• Type python3 manage.py createsuperuser in the given terminal and press “Enter”.
• The system will ask for credentials, after which a superuser will be created.
• To run the server, we type the command python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 and press “Enter”.

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my_app

my_project

manage.py

• manage.py

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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""Django's command-line utility for administrative tasks."""

import os

import sys

def main():

    """Run administrative tasks."""

    os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'my_project.settings')

    try:

        from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line

    except ImportError as exc:

        raise ImportError(

            "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "

            "available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you "

            "forget to activate a virtual environment?"

        ) from exc

    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)

if __name__ == '__main__':

    main()

• Now we can find our application by clicking on the link below the “Run” button.

• To see the login page for the Django “Admin” site, we need to append /admin/ at the end of our base URL. For example, if the application is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000, we can access the admin panel at http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/.

Django "Admin" login page

• Now we can type our username and password, then press the “Log in” button.