tutorial part 1...syncing db

[Brandy]

I am working (again) through the tutorial part 1. I have made changes to Engine and Name as specified in the instructions. However, running "python manage.py syncdb" continues to return "Please supply the ENGINE value." I did not encounter this problem the first time I worked through this tutorial.

 

# Django settings for mysite project.

DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

ADMINS = (
    # ('Your Name', 'your_...@example.com'),
)

MANAGERS = ADMINS

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
        'NAME': 'c:/program files/bitnami djangostack/mysite/sqlite3.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.
    }
}

[victoria]

Your settings seem correct. Which version of django are you using?
Have you checked that the settings.py file is in the correct location
for your django version?

Django 1.4 expects this layout:

mysite/
manage.py
mysite/
__init__.py
settings.py
urls.py
wsgi.py

While Django 1.3 expects this:

mysite/
__init__.py
manage.py
settings.py
urls.py

Since 1.4 was released this seems one of the most common mistakes that
could cause this error.

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[Brandy]

I am in version 1.4. I feel like this is what is happening: I open the file to edit it in either Emacs or BlueFish. The file seems to save properly (I have verified that the files are being saved to the correct directory), but those changes don't seem to be reflected in the files when I access them through Django. It is very strange, because when I open the files in an editor, they appear to be correct. But django is not picking up on the changes for some reason.

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[Leonid Toshchev]

Hello.
Try to escape spaces. I don`t check how django work when path have
spaces inside, but i meet same problems in my practice.

p.s. sorry for my bad english.

12 апреля 2012 г. 21:32 пользователь victoria <ka...@bitnami.org> написал:

[william ratcliff]

Can you post your full code somewhere as a zip?

[Brandy]

This is the whole directory.

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[william ratcliff]

Hi Brandy,

I downloaded your project modified the beginning to the following:

# Django settings for mysite project.

import os,sys

HOMEDIR=os.path.dirname(__file__)

DEBUG = True

TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

ADMINS = (

    # ('Your Name', 'your_...@example.com'),

)

MANAGERS = ADMINS

DATABASES = {

    'default': {

        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.

        'NAME': os.path.join(HOMEDIR,'testdb'),                      # 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.

    }

}

It works under the django 1.4 that I just pulled onto a "virgin" windows 7 box.     My suspicion is that in your engine file, you wanted to use:

r'c:/program files/bitnami djangostack/mysite/sqlite3.db'

instead of:

'c:/program files/bitnami djangostack/mysite/sqlite3.db',

This is assuming that you have read/write permissions to that directory, etc.    I prefer the pattern that I used of putting the sqllite database relative to __file__ because it is easier to move it between machines.   So, for example, if I develop on a mac (or windows), when I deploy to linux (not so much for the database) for production, I don't have to manipulate the path throughout the code...Later, if I need to find something relative to the project root, I can then do a:

from django.conf import settings

and grab settings.HOME as the base directory

Best,

William

(btw. I placed the directory in c:\mysite for my test

so you have:

-- denotes a mysite directory

c:\mysite

    manage.py

    --mysite

          __init__.py

          settings.py

          testdb

          urls.py

          wsgi.py

   

)

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[Brandy]

FINALLY! I used your modifications and adjusted the security settings of the directory (twice). And now it works. Thank you everyone for taking the time to look at my code!

 

Brandy

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