With Django CMS 2 is included an example project, complete with settings.py file. Use this to get started with.

A number of apps are mentioned in INSTALLED_APPS, but need to be installed separately, and aren't needed to get started. They'll be useful later, but for now, they can be commented out.

    #'south',
    # sample application
    #'sampleapp',
    #'store',
    #'debug_toolbar',

In the example directory, run:

python manage.py syncdb

then:

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 

Now you can visit

http://<server address>:8000/admin 

and see that Django CMS is running. (Don't expect to be able to use this interface just yet - we need a few more steps.)

Note that will see an error at http://<server address>:8000: ! RootPageDoesNotExist - this simply means that you haven't created any pages