Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#23786 closed Bug (worksforme)

tutorial bug for django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware

Reported by: bedros Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: 1.7
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

when trying the tutorial part 5

in section testing the views

I got the error

ImproperlyConfigured: Module "django.contrib.auth.middleware" does not define a "SessionAuthenticationMiddleware" attribute/class

after some searching on the web, I discovered that I need to comment out that middleware in the settings.py

I wish someone updates the tutorial to mention the above fix

It's such show stopper for someone trying django tutorials for first time.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by bedros, 9 years ago

comment:2 by Baptiste Mispelon, 9 years ago

Resolution: → worksforme
Status: new → closed

Hi,

django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware is new in 1.7 (and part of the default value for settings.MIDDLEWARES).

It seems that you're using a settings file made for Django 1.7 but you're running an older version of Django.
Upgrading Django to 1.7 or re-generating your settings file with the appropriate version should fix the issue.

Thanks.

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