Accessing the Django admin interface

To access our database, we have to go into the Django admin interface. Remember that there is an admin path in /moviesstore/urls.py

…
urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', include('home.urls')),
    path('movies/', include('movies.urls')),
]

If you go to localhost:8000/admin, you’ll be taken to the admin site, as shown in Figure 5.5:

Figure 5.5 – Admin page

Django has a powerful built-in admin interface that provides a visual way of managing all aspects of a Django project – for example, users, movies, and more.

With what username and password do we log in to the admin interface? For this, we have to create a superuser in the Terminal.

Creating a superuser

Let’s create a superuser to access the admin panel. In the Terminal, stop the...