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lakshmen
lakshmen

Reputation: 29064

Getting the admin site to work in Django Project

I am trying to get the admin site to work for my Django Project. I am following this tutorial https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial02/ and I am using Django 1.4.

Urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^$', include('polls.urls')),
    # Examples:
    # url(r'^$', 'Blog.views.home', name='home'),
    # url(r'^Blog/', include('Blog.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
    #url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

The settings.py is:

 DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
        'NAME': 'dev.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.
    }
}

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'polls',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    #'django.contrib.admindocs',

)

The error msg i get is:

DoesNotExist at /admin/
Site matching query does not exist.
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/
Django Version: 1.4
Exception Type: DoesNotExist
Exception Value:    
Site matching query does not exist.
Exception Location: /Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py in get, line 366
Python Executable:  /Users/IMAC/work3/env/bin/python
Python Version: 2.7.1
Python Path:    
['/Users/IMAC/work3/Blog',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python27.zip',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python2.7',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python2.7/plat-mac',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/Extras/lib/python',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
 '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7',
 '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin',
 '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
 '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac',
 '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
 '/Users/IMAC/work3/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages']

Not Sure what is the problem? Need some guidance. Would appreciate any help.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5233

Answers (3)

anoop
anoop

Reputation: 3297

Late reply..

But I got the fix for this problem from here

http://satishgandham.com/2012/04/error-whil-creating-super-user-in-django1-4-on-mac/

Edited Based on the comment

This problem was rectified by running this command in terminal before adding the user

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

I’m guessing this character encoding problem while running syncdb is the reason for the following error while accessing admin section of django1.4

Upvotes: 1

phillchill
phillchill

Reputation: 116

I had the same issue during the tutorial. You mention a Python error when trying to create a super user, is it the one below?

File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 428, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

This has to do with your terminal's locale settings. See here for a SO solution. Run the two export commands mentioned there, delete your database file, run 'python manage.py syncdb' to create the database again, enter 'yes' to create super-user. This shouldnt give you an error anymore and you should now be able to access the admin site on localhost.

Upvotes: 2

lciamp
lciamp

Reputation: 685

settings.py :

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
        'NAME': 'data.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.
    }
}


INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
    'try',
)

urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url


from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',

    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

run syncdb to create the db and a user. Then it should work.

Upvotes: 2

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