Django: Create new project in an existing folder

Default command for creating a new project is : django-admin startproject my_new_project Django will then create a folder called my_new_project (if it does not exist) But if folder my_new_project exists (even if empty) we get error like : CommandError: '/path/to/my_new_project' already exists The way around is to specify a folder name after the project name like django-admin startproject my_new_project existing_folder See the documentation for details.