I'm running into this issue (SettingNotSet with no connections being
attempted to database).  I have full debug5 logging enabled on my
database and i am not seeing apache2/mod_wsgi attempt connecting to
the database.  I changed it from localhost to the ip and ensured
pg_hba.conf was configured properly and allows connections on the ip,
but that doesn't offer any resolution or change in symptoms.



On Nov 20, 5:44 am, Mikko Ohtamaa <[email protected]> wrote:
> Symptoms: cannot run Satchmo on the production server, 
> hilariousSettingNotSetexceptions all over the place
>
> Configuration: Apache / mod_wsgi / PostgresSQL
>
> Cause: PostgreSQL does not allow passworded connections from the
> localhost. Satchmo hides the error (swallows the exception?) when
> PostgreSQL tries to report about the invalid credentials.
>
> Root cause: Bad architecture. Satchmo uses "livesettings" table which
> tries to make Django settings loadable from database instead of a
> file. However, Django architecture is not exactly flexible enough and
> the code could be more robust. If there are any database errors they
> will be masked as "SettingNotSet" exception. The proper solution would
> be make livesettings and Django to use explicit application
> initialization patterns instead of current lazy initialization . The
> intermediate solution would be to do some kind of database check when
> Satchmo starts in the production mode.
>
> The above applies to all kind of cache/database errors, not just
> PostgreSQL.
>
> Fix:
>
> If you dig deep enough you'll get this error visible:
>
> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:25:40 configuration WARNING  Problem finding
> settings LANGUAGE.SHOW_TRANSLATIONS, FATAL:  Ident authentication
> failed for user "yourdatabaseuser"
>
> 1. Do not use localhost as DATABASE_HOST in settings.py, use explicit
> IP address of your computer. PostgreSQL configuration will try to do
> ident check for localhost connections.
>
> 2. Add your database user to /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/pg_hba.conf as a
> line
>
> host    yourdatabaseuser    yourdatabaseuser 0.0.0.0/0            md5
>
> 3. Restart PostgreSQL
>
> References:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2006-10/msg00142.php
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users/browse_thread/thread/429...
>
> --
> Mikko Ohtamaahttp://www.twinapex- Python professionals for hire

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