I just tries to start django project on win7(x64), but i faced with following issue:
$ python manage.py runserver Performing system checks... System check identified no issues (0 silenced). March 24, 2018 - 14:24:08 Django version 1.11.3, using settings 'superlists.settings' Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK. Unhandled exception in thread started by <function check_errors.<locals>.wrapper at 0x035BD978> Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\alesya\.virtualenvs\superlists\lib\site-packages\django\utils\a utoreload.py", line 227, in wrapper fn(*args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\alesya\.virtualenvs\superlists\lib\site-packages\django\core\ma nagement\commands\runserver.py", line 149, in inner_run ipv6=self.use_ipv6, threading=threading, server_cls=self.server_cls) File "C:\Users\alesya\.virtualenvs\superlists\lib\site-packages\django\core\se rvers\basehttp.py", line 164, in run httpd = httpd_cls(server_address, WSGIRequestHandler, ipv6=ipv6) File "C:\Users\alesya\.virtualenvs\superlists\lib\site-packages\django\core\se rvers\basehttp.py", line 74, in __init__ super(WSGIServer, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) File "c:\users\alesya\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\Lib\socketserv er.py", line 453, in __init__ self.server_bind() File "c:\users\alesya\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\Lib\wsgiref\si mple_server.py", line 50, in server_bind HTTPServer.server_bind(self) File "c:\users\alesya\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\Lib\http\serve r.py", line 138, in server_bind self.server_name = socket.getfqdn(host) File "c:\users\alesya\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\Lib\socket.py" , line 673, in getfqdn hostname, aliases, ipaddrs = gethostbyaddr(name) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbb in position 14: invalid start byte My computer has an ASCII name, so I even not realized, what happens. Did all these things on another win7 and everything was ok. Maybe someone can help with?
UPD. My problem was due to the changed 'hosts' file - there are a lot of disabled addresses. Thanks all for the answers.
127.0.0.1in yourhostsfile that do not contain ASCII characters. Could you post yourC:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hostsfile and also the name of your computer.