Migrating to a custom User model with South

[Guy Tamir]

Hey all,

I'm trying to create a custom User model on an existing project (Django 1.5.5).

I followed this tutorial, I created the new model, ran a "schemamigration"  once, which created the tables in the DB,

also ran the "Migrate" command once with the copying code in the "forward" method (like instructed in the tutorial in bullet no. 10.

The new custom model table was created and all the previous users were copied correctly.

Now, I'm trying to change the "AUTH_USER_MODEL" to newly created custom User model, but when I run the migrate command I'm getting

this error: 

ImproperlyConfigured: AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model 'myappname.CustomUser' that has not been installed

I'm new to South, and this is my first time trying to work with the custom User option..

Not really sure how to fix this..

Some more details:

Django=1.5.5

South=1.0

Using Postgresql

Thanks,

[Helton Alves]

do you put your "myappname" in INSTALLED_APPS on settings ?

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[Guy Tamir]

Yes its there.

Not sure if this can cause an issue but  "myappname" is the main app for my project where the settings.py file is at..

and the CustomUser is a model inside this app

[Helton Alves]

your "myappname" is in the same directory?

ex:

settings.py

myappname/

or

settings.py

apps/

    myappname/

if in another directory, on INSTALLED_APPS have to are this mode "directory.myappname".

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[Guy Tamir]

the layout is like this:

myappname (dir):

 - settings.py

 - models.py (here is the CustomUser model)

[Helton Alves]

can you put here your full directory?

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[Guy Tamir]

myappname(dir):

-settings.py

- admin.py

- forms.py

- models.py

- urls.py

- views.py

- wsgi.py

[Helton Alves]

why don't you put your app in your own directory?

this mode is more organized.

project/

    settings.py

    views.py

    urls.py

    wsgi.py

    myappname/

        model.py

        forms.py

        views.py

        urls.py

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[Guy Tamir]

I'll change it, thanks for the tip.

Found my problem though.

Inside the same models file where I created the CustomUser I also defined a "CaseInsensitiveModelBackend" that uses the get_user_model function

Since they were both in the same file it created a loop (i think) and when I moved it to another file it all worked fine.

Thanks