# Django 1.8.18.dev20170123152445 documentation

# “How-to” guides

Here you’ll find short answers to “How do I....?” types of questions. These how-to guides don’t cover topics in depth – you’ll find that material in the Using Django and the API Reference. However, these guides will help you quickly accomplish common tasks.

- Authentication using `REMOTE_USER`
- Writing custom django-admin commands
- Writing custom model fields
- Custom Lookups
- Custom template tags and filters
- Writing a custom storage system
- Deploying Django
- Upgrading Django to a newer version
- Error reporting
- Providing initial data for models
- Running Django on Jython
- Integrating Django with a legacy database
- Outputting CSV with Django
- Outputting PDFs with Django
- Managing static files (e.g. images, JavaScript, CSS)
- Deploying static files
- How to install Django on Windows
- Writing database migrations

See also

The Django community aggregator, where we aggregate content from the global Django community. Many writers in the aggregator write this sort of how-to material.