'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'user' (Creating my first admin site)

[zippers24]

I've been going through the djangobook, the online version, and am on
page 84, I have done all 5 steps but when I go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/.

I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in
get_response
77. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\views
\decorators.py" in _checklogin
50. if request.user.is_authenticated() and request.user.is_staff:

AttributeError at /admin/
'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'user'

Does anyone know why this might be the case and how I can solve the
problem?

[Scott Moonen]

Andrew,

You can find all the information you need here: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/authentication/#authentication-in-web-requests

See especially the part that refers to enabling the appropriate middleware.

  -- Scott

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[zippers24]

Thanks Scott, but I already have all the middleware enabled and no
errors are returned when I run manage.py runserver.

[Scott Moonen]

Aah, interesting, ok.

One thing that strikes me is the fact that it is reporting you're providing a WSGIRequest object as the request parameter, rather than an HttpRequest.

I'm not very familiar with how WSGI processing is handled, but it does seem rather strange to me that your views would be running in a context where they were passed a WSGIRequest instead of an HttpRequest.

I'm not sure I'll be much help resolving it as a result.  But I do think that the first step would be to see your urls.py; could you paste it into dpaste.com and reply with the link?  Maybe someone else will have some insight.

  -- Scott

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:44 PM, zippers24 <AndrewK...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Scott, but I already have all the middleware enabled and no
errors are returned when I run manage.py runserver.