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I've set up the most basic Django server on Pythonanywhere, then I downloaded all of those files on my local machine. (the linking between the python-anywhere cloud server and my local machine is done via Git using pull & push commands)

If I were to run on my computer, how should I approach this? Do I download django from pip and turn on virtual environment and run it there? I am just a bit confused.

Since I don't know a whole lot about what's going and what webserver I am using on pythonanywhere, I don't exactly how to run it on my local machine. I also saw in pythonanywhere's docs not to run the runserver command. Is it even okay running it on my local machine? It won't change anything in the file themselves, right?

To run a development version of your Django app locally, user runserver management command, see the docs.