Django 11 ImproperlyConfigured: AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model 'authex.UserProfile' that has not been installed

[cjacq...@gmail.com]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to update Django from 1.10.8 to 1.11.6 but it raise me an error.

I just update Django with pip. I use Python 2.7.11 and Mac OS X and everything was working on Django 1.10.8.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 228, in wrapper

    fn(*args, **kwargs)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 117, in inner_run

    autoreload.raise_last_exception()

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 251, in raise_last_exception

    six.reraise(*_exception)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 228, in wrapper

    fn(*args, **kwargs)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 27, in setup

    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 108, in populate

    app_config.import_models()

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 202, in import_models

    self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module

    __import__(name)

  File "/Users/Colas/PyCharmProjects/assoweb/authex/models.py", line 6, in <module>

    from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/admin.py", line 7, in <module>

    from django.contrib.auth.forms import (

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/forms.py", line 22, in <module>

    UserModel = get_user_model()

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py", line 198, in get_user_model

    "AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model '%s' that has not been installed" % settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model 'authex.UserProfile' that has not been installed

Any ideas ? Thanks !

Colas

[James Schneider]

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/forms.py", line 22, in <module>

    UserModel = get_user_model()

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py", line 198, in get_user_model

    "AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model '%s' that has not been installed" % settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model 'authex.UserProfile' that has not been installed

Any ideas ? Thanks !

Does INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py file contain an entry for 'authex'? 

-James

[cjacq...@gmail.com]

Yes, there is my INSTALLED_APPS (it was ok with Django 1.10) :

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    #django
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.flatpages',
    'django.contrib.humanize',
    #third-parties
    'bootstrapform',
    'django_bleach',
    'django_tables2',
    'easy_thumbnails',
    'emoticons',
    'form_utils',
    'mathfilters',
    'tinymce',
    #assoweb
    'airfield',
    'authex',
    'blog',
    'challenge',
    'core',
    'django_resource',
    'files',
    'help',
    'mailing',
    'questionnaire',
    'section',
    'treasury',
    'year',
]

And later :

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'authex.UserProfile'

Thanks for helping. :)

[cjacq...@gmail.com]

An additional information : the settings.py was generated with Django 1.9.7

[cjacq...@gmail.com]

Ok, i finally found where the problem was : the admin class (UserAdmin) of my custom user class was in models.py and must be in admin.py.

I found the solution here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45783147/django-lookuperror-app-accounts-doesnt-have-a-user-model