id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 2219 Skip the step to edit the settings.py Jza Jacob "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 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' }}}" defect closed Documentation 0.91 minor invalid settings.py, database, development server, Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0