#2219 closed defect (invalid)
Skip the step to edit the settings.py
| Reported by: | Jza | Owned by: | Jacob |
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| Component: | Documentation | Version: | 0.91 |
| Severity: | minor | Keywords: | settings.py, database, development server, |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
The tutorial1 http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial1/ has a tiny bug between the project start and the development server part. At no point they stop to configure the setting, this cause an error for not finding a running database. I suggest to put a paragraph to configure the database before the development server. Or make a note that the following is ok until you configure the setting file:
1 python manage.py runserver 2 Validating models... 3 Unhandled exception in thread started by <function inner_run at 0xb78d217c> 4 Traceback (most recent call last): 5 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/management.py", line 757, in inner_run 6 validate() 7 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/management.py", line 741, in validate 8 num_errors = get_validation_errors(outfile) 9 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/management.py", line 634, in get_validation_errors 10 import django.models 11 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/models/__init__.py", line 1, in ? 12 from django.core import meta 13 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/meta/__init__.py", line 3, in ? 14 from django.core import db 15 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/core/db/__init__.py", line 23, in ? 16 raise ImproperlyConfigured, "Could not load database backend: %s. Is your DATABASE_ENGINE setting (currently, %r) spelled correctly? Available options are: %s" % \ 17 django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Could not load database backend: No module named psycopg. Is your DATABASE_ENGINE setting (currently, 'postgresql') spelled correctly? Available options are: 'ado_mssql', 'mysql', 'postgresql', 'sqlite3' }}}
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The docs you were reading apply to the Django development version, not 0.91. You're looking for the 0.91 docs.