OK, problem solved. The location I thought was working for django 1.4
was different than was actually the case. I'm reinstalling to a new
location and hope it will work correctly this time.
The advice on adding the divide by 0 line helped since it didn't
execute.
Thanks,
Mark
On May 28, 4:57 am, Gelonida N <gelon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/27/2012 05:38 AM, phantom21 wrote:
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> > I've tried to set up the database as sqlite3. I keep getting an error
> > on the ENGINE line, but can't figure out why as it looks correct.
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> > Here is the database section:
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> > DATABASES = {
> > 'default': {
> > 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
> > 'NAME': '/usr/bin/sqlite3/mark.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.
> > }
> > }
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> > And here is the error I receive:
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> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "manage.py", line 10, in<module>
> > execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
> > __init__.py", line 443, in execute_from_command_line
> > utility.execute()
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
> > __init__.py", line 382, in execute
> > self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
> > base.py", line 196, in run_from_argv
> > self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
> > base.py", line 232, in execute
> > output = self.handle(*args, **options)
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
> > base.py", line 371, in handle
> > return self.handle_noargs(**options)
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
> > commands/syncdb.py", line 57, in handle_noargs
> > cursor = connection.cursor()
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/backends/
> > dummy/base.py", line 15, in complain
> > raise ImproperlyConfigured("settings.DATABASES is improperly
> > configured. "
> > django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: settings.DATABASES is
> > improperly configured. Please supply the ENGINE value. Check settings
> > documentation for more details.
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> Well your DATABASES settings look fine (except of the path of the NAME
> entry as others have already pointed out.
> To be very sure there are no permission problems
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> Do you get the error already when running the command
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> python manage.py syncdb
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> For testing you could add following line as LAST line in settings.py
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> print 'DATABASES = %r' % DATABASES
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> and paste the results to your next answer.
> Printing with %r has also the advantage of revealing any hidden characters.
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> Are you sure, that django uses the setting.py file, that you modified???
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> If you're not sure, than add following line as the FIRST line in settings.py
> a = 1 / 0
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> If Django fails now with a division by zero you're sure it's using the
> file you think it's using and you can remove this line again.
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