Re: I encountered a core exception and need help configuring for a database. My OS is Ubuntu 12.10 32 bit

[Lightning]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:50:49 PM UTC-7, Lightning wrote:

I need help configuring for a database. Is there a paper I can read that will give me an overview on this procedure? I encountered a core exception. My OS is Ubuntu 12.10 32 bit. ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE = "DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE" class LazySettings(LazyObject): """ A lazy proxy for either global Django settings or a custom settings object. The user can manually configure settings prior to using them. Otherwise, Django uses the settings module pointed to by DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE. """

 ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting USE_I18N, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

[Bill Freeman]

Setting an environment variable is done by saying something like:

lightning@rigel5:~$ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='mysite.settings'

assuming that your settings.py file is in a directory named "mysite", in turn in the current directory (your home directory, if I interpret your prompt string correctly).  Then that command may work.

But that's the painful way to do that.  Presumably there is a file named manage.py either in the same directory as settings.py (older Djangos) or one directory up (newer Djangos).  'cd' to the directory containing manage.py and type:

lightning@rigel5:pathToDirectoryContainingManage_py$ python manage.py diffsettings

If you look at manage.py with 'less' or with an editor, you will see that it sets the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable (though using python code, rather than shell code) appropriately (for use from the current directory) before doing other stuff.

For my money, django-admin.py should only ever be used for its startproject command.  Everything else should be done with manage.py after cd'ing to the directory that contains it (or from a wsgi script, which also sets the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable and adjusts sys.path to be sure that the directory containing manage.py is there, but that will come much later for you, I think).

Bill

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[hugh Manchu]

ightning@rigel5:~$ cd /home/lightning/Documents/django-works/mysite/

lightning@rigel5:~/Documents/django-works/mysite$ pathToDirectoryContainingManage_py$ python manage.py diffsettings

pathToDirectoryContainingManage_py$: command not found

lightning@rigel5:~/Documents/django-works/mysite$ pathToDirectoryContainingManage_py

pathToDirectoryContainingManage_py: command not found

lightning@rigel5:~/Documents/django-works/mysite$ ightning@rigel5:pathToDirectoryContainingManage_py$ python manage.py diffsettings

ightning@rigel5:pathToDirectoryContainingManage_py$: command not found

lightning@rigel5:~/Documents/django-works/mysite$ cd /manage.py

bash: cd: /manage.py: No such file or directory

lightning@rigel5:~/Documents/django-works/mysite$ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='mysite.settings'

lightning@rigel5:~/Documents/django-works/mysite$ django-admin.py test

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/bin/django-admin.py", line 5, in <module>

    management.execute_from_command_line()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 453, in execute_from_command_line

    utility.execute()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 392, in execute

    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 263, in fetch_command

    app_name = get_commands()[subcommand]

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 109, in get_commands

    apps = settings.INSTALLED_APPS

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 52, in __getattr__

    self._setup(name)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 47, in _setup

    self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 132, in __init__

    raise ImportError("Could not import settings '%s' (Is it on sys.path?): %s" % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e))

ImportError: Could not import settings 'mysite.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named mysite.settings

lightning@rigel5:~/Documents/django-works/mysite$ 

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[hugh Manchu]

I gave it a shot Bill an thanks for the reply btw ... this also id not work I pasted what i did in the terminal. settings.py is nested in /home/lightning/Docments/django-works/mysite/manage.py. settings.py is one down

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[hugh Manchu]

CORRECTION;

I gave it a shot Bill an thanks for the reply btw ... this also id not work I pasted what i did in the terminal. manage.py NOT settings.py is nested in /home/lightning/Docments/django-works/mysite/manage.py. settings.py is one down

[Iftikhar Ali]

 buddy i am also getting the same error... if you have so far got the answer please help me too...

[C. Kirby]

Can you show the file structure of you project like this:

/project
-app1/
--models.py
--views.py
-manage.py
-settings.py

with your actual files and structure?
Also it would be useful to see the contents of you manage.py file

[hugh Manchu]

make sure you have your settings.py configured properly... if you still need help I will check back later today and see what i can do.

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Iftikhar Ali <iftikh...@gmail.com> wrote:

 buddy i am also getting the same error... if you have so far got the answer please help me too...

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