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# Add Wagtail to an existing Django project

[Integrating Wagtail into a Django project](https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/getting_started/integrating_into_django.html)

Install Wagtail however you do dependency management.

Add these to your `INSTALLED_APPS`:

```python
'wagtail.contrib.forms',
'wagtail.contrib.redirects',
'wagtail.embeds',
'wagtail.sites',
'wagtail.users',
'wagtail.snippets',
'wagtail.documents',
'wagtail.images',
'wagtail.search',
'wagtail.admin',
'wagtail',

'modelcluster',
'taggit',
```

Add this to `MIDDLEWARE`:

```python
'wagtail.contrib.redirects.middleware.RedirectMiddleware',
```


Add these other settings:

```python
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
WAGTAIL_SITE_NAME = 'My Example Site'
WAGTAILADMIN_BASE_URL = 'http://example.com'
```

Add the Wagtail urls to your `urls.py`:

```python
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.urls import path, include

from wagtail.admin import urls as wagtailadmin_urls
from wagtail import urls as wagtail_urls
from wagtail.documents import urls as wagtaildocs_urls

urlpatterns = [
...
path('cms/', include(wagtailadmin_urls)),
path('documents/', include(wagtaildocs_urls)),
path('pages/', include(wagtail_urls)),
...
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
```

Then, run:

```bash
./manage.py migrate
```

And restart your server.

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