Re: Database configuration errors saying 'ENGINE' isn't set when it is

2014-09-02 Thread Shaun Kruger
After a few more hours of going over this I determined the root cause and now I simply do not understand how this was not a problem in dev instances or any other environments. This was a circular import issue. local_settings.py started with an import that fetched defaults from the app. from .se

Database configuration errors saying 'ENGINE' isn't set when it is

2014-09-02 Thread Shaun Kruger
I have a django 1.4.3 application (upgrading to 1.4.14 made no difference) that is behaving oddly. I know 1.4 isn't officially supported, but I'm hoping to come up with some understanding about what is going wrong so I can get by for the next few weeks until we can start our upgrade to 1.7. I