Tutorial needs "disable django.contrib.sites' instruction

[esnolte@…]

If you're running Django 1.4 and follow the online tutorial (presumably a tutorial for 1.4), you'll encounter the following error when you try to access the admin site (​http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/) in part 2:

DoesNotExist at /admin/
Site matching query does not exist.

The fix is to comment out the "django.contrib.sites" line in INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py.

So part 2 should read:

• Uncomment "django.contrib.admin" in the INSTALLED_APPS setting.
• Comment "django.contrib.sites" in the INSTALLED_APPS setting.
• Run python manage.py syncdb. Since you ...

[Karen Tracey]

It's not necessary to disable sites to get the tutorial to work properly, there is something else going on with the sequence of events here that is causing the problem. I don't know exactly what sequence of events would lead to the default site being missing, but I did just run through the tutorial following the instructions, with 1.4, and did not see this problem.

[anonymous]

Interesting. I experience this on Django (1, 4, 0, 'final', 0) as installed by MacPorts' py27-django package with MacPorts' Python 2.7.3 and a sqlite3 database. What environment was the tutorial tested in? A Linux or Windows environment? I can try and replicate the problem to help narrow down the cause.

[Aymeric Augustin]

This is a duplicate of #18226, please continue the discussion over there.