Hi, I was able to fix the problem by applying the patch here:
https://bitbucket.org/andrewgodwin/south/pull-requests/86/fixing-the-keyerror-default-when-managerpy/diff Thanks, Lianghong On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 12:44:33 PM UTC-4, James Schneider wrote: > > The version of Django you are running has not been supported for quite a > while, you should update your Django installation to 1.7 or 1.8. There may > be a compatibility issue if you have a new version of the plugin but an old > Django installation. > > You should also look to see if there is a support ticket queue for the > MongoDB app you are using since Django doesn't support it out of the box. I > doubt you'll get much help here for an unsupported Django version, > especially since you are trying to integrate with a heavy third-party > package. > > -James > On Oct 19, 2015 9:14 AM, "Lianghong Xu" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to django. I would like to use MongoDB as my backend engine and >> installed all required packages for a MongoDB setup. However, when I run >> "python manage.py syncdb", I get the following error message: >> >> (mywiki)lianghon@172-19-151-114:~/repo/mywiki/testwiki$ python manage.py >> syncdb >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> >> File "manage.py", line 10, in <module> >> >> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) >> >> File >> "/h/lianghon/repo/mywiki/mywiki/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", >> >> line 399, in execute_from_command_line >> >> utility.execute() >> >> File >> "/h/lianghon/repo/mywiki/mywiki/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", >> >> line 392, in execute >> >> self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) >> >> File >> "/h/lianghon/repo/mywiki/mywiki/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", >> >> line 272, in fetch_command >> >> klass = load_command_class(app_name, subcommand) >> >> File >> "/h/lianghon/repo/mywiki/mywiki/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", >> >> line 75, in load_command_class >> >> module = import_module('%s.management.commands.%s' % (app_name, name)) >> >> File >> "/h/lianghon/repo/mywiki/mywiki/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", >> >> line 40, in import_module >> >> __import__(name) >> >> File >> "/h/lianghon/repo/mywiki/mywiki/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/south/management/commands/__init__.py", >> >> line 13, in <module> >> >> from south.management.commands.syncdb import Command as SyncCommand >> >> File >> "/h/lianghon/repo/mywiki/mywiki/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/south/management/commands/syncdb.py", >> >> line 19, in <module> >> >> from south.db import dbs >> >> File >> "/h/lianghon/repo/mywiki/mywiki/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/south/db/__init__.py", >> >> line 84, in <module> >> >> db = dbs[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS] >> >> KeyError: 'default' >> >> >> >> I've searched a lot on the Internet on this problem and most answers are >> like this: >> >> "You don't have correct DATABASES >> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/settings/#databases> in your >> settings. There should be a database named 'default'" >> >> >> My DATABASES settings is as follows: >> >> >> DATABASES = { >> >> 'default': { >> >> 'ENGINE': 'django_mongodb_engine', >> >> 'NAME': 'wikipedia', >> >> } >> >> } >> >> >> I don't think there is a problem with my settings. The mongodb server on >> my localhost is working fine. The django version I'm using is 1.5.11. >> >> >> Any help would be very much appreciated! >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> Lianghong >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/37905c1e-7a22-4f2f-84f6-ed3afa86eebd%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/37905c1e-7a22-4f2f-84f6-ed3afa86eebd%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/555cd3b2-65ee-4ad8-9c3c-c8037a9f0e29%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
