Check out django-periodicals as described in Installing from GitHub. There is a directory called demo in the checkout directory that contains a fully functional installation.
It is designed to show how to configured your project to use this application.
I also overrode the base.html template and added in some trivial Twitter Bootstrap styling so the pages wouldn’t be unstyled. django-periodicals does not require the use of Bootstrap.
Follow these steps:
$ cd django-periodicals
$ virtualenv demoenv
$ source demoenv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements-test.txt
$ pip install Django
$ cd demo
$ python manage.py syncdb
$ python manage.py loaddata demo_tagging.json
$ python manage.py loaddata demo_periodicals.json
$ python manage.py update_index
$ python manage.py runserver
So now you can visit the demo site at http://127.0.0.1:8000/.