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Reputation: 36205

Django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured:

After installing redis and django on an ubuntu ec2 node, based on http://michal.karzynski.pl/blog/2013/07/14/using-redis-as-django-session-store-and-cache-backend/ , I have been trying to experiment with the low level cache api (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/cache/#the-low-level-cache-api) at the command line

 Python 3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:11)
 [GCC 4.8.2] on linux
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 >>> import django
 >>> import redis
 >>> from django.core.cache import cache
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/env1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/cache/__init__.py", line 34, in <module>
     if DEFAULT_CACHE_ALIAS not in settings.CACHES:
   File "/home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/env1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 46, in __getattr__
     self._setup(name)
   File "/home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/env1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 40, in _setup
     % (desc, ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE))
 django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting CACHES, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

I have a django project in place, and have set up the middleware to look like:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware',    # This must be first on the list
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.cache.FetchFromCacheMiddleware', # This must be last
)

How can I get this working?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4299

Answers (1)

catavaran
catavaran

Reputation: 45555

To experiment with django you should run the shell with the following command:

python manage.py shell

This will load the project's settings.

Upvotes: 5

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