Missing a step in "Activate the admin site"

[Earl Ruby <eruby@…>]

If you use Django 1.4.5 and follow the steps on ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial02/ to "Activate the admin site" you'll get a "DoesNotExist at /admin/" error page.

With a new installation, the django_site table is empty. It needs at least one record or the admin site will fail with the "DoesNotExist at /admin/" error page. To fix the problem:

python manage.py shell

from django.contrib.sites.models import Site
Site.objects.create(pk=1, domain='YourDomainName', name='YourName')

Please update the ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial02/ with this info.

[Tim Graham]

An entry for "example.com" should be created automatically when you run syncdb. You may have made a mistake following the instructions.