Re: Problem with the tutorial.

[J. Cliff Dyer]

You might be overriding the DATABASES setting later on in your settings
file, or you might not be accessing the settings file you think you're
accessing.

Try running the following, to see what value you get:

$ python manage.py shell
>>> from django.conf import settings
>>> settings.DATABASES
[?]
>>> _

Cheers,
Cliff

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 10:11 -0700, maxim wrote:
> When I try to run the command:
> python manage.py syncdb
>
>
> I get the following error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
> line 443, in execute_from_command_line
> utility.execute()
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
> line 382, in execute
> self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py",
> line 196, in run_from_argv
> self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py",
> line 232, in execute
> output = self.handle(*args, **options)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py",
> line 371, in handle
> return self.handle_noargs(**options)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 57, in handle_noargs
> cursor = connection.cursor()
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/dummy/base.py",
> line 15, in complain
> raise ImproperlyConfigured("settings.DATABASES is improperly
> configured. "
> django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: settings.DATABASES is
> improperly configured. Please supply the ENGINE value. Check settings
> documentation for more details.
>
>
> But my settings file has the DATABASE section:
> DATABASES = {
> 'default': {
> 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', # Add
> 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
> 'NAME': '/home/maxim/mysite/mysite.db', #
> Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
> 'USER': '', # Not used with sqlite3.
> 'PASSWORD': '', # Not used with sqlite3.
> 'HOST': '', # Set to empty string for
> localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
> 'PORT': '', # Set to empty string for
> default. Not used with sqlite3.
> }
> }
>
>
> What could be causing the error?
>
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[xi...@poczta.fm]

# Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or
'oracle'.

Not 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' but 'sqlite3'.