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After I created a web app in 'Web' tab and configured WSGI file, the server is prepared for use without running any command in console. Then if I run 'python manager.py runserver' in the web console, what does that mean? Does that mean the latter console server would override the default server when I created web app? Sorry if this is a silly question. Thanks.

I am not sure if this is exactly correct but here it goes. When you use the wsgi file, you can access your website at your_username.pythonanywhere.com. On the other had, if you use runserver, your web app will also be available at localhost(127.0.blah.blah:d'oh) and will be served by Django's development server instead of whatever web server pythonanywhere uses. Again, I could be wrong.

Edit: Now that I actually read my post, I think I am definitely wrong :). Could someone help us out here?

Edit again: This was already answered here.

The short answer is that the Django runserver isn't supported on PythonAnywhere. It's really only designed for running on a local machine -- while I'm not aware of any security problems, it wasn't designed with security or scalability in mind, just for local testing, so running it on a publicly-accessible site like PythonAnywhere would be risky anyway.

Perhaps a more useful question from me would be -- why do you want to run the Django runserver? If it's just out of interest, then hopefully I've answered that :-) If there's a specific thing you want to do, though, perhaps I can suggest a better way to do it here?

@giles, I would run another server in PA console is because I want to try '--insecure' parameter. Is there a way to use custom parameters to the 'default server', the one can be reloaded in Web tab? I want to try '--insecure' is because I was trying to solve static file not loading issue I encountered, now the static files issue is basically solved. So this question is not that urgent to me now. Thanks all the same if you can instruct me more.

--insecure doesn't really make sense in the context of the PythonAnywhere web servers. It's a specific argument to the Django runserver command to tell it how to handle static files and we don't use runserver to serve your web apps.