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

[bedros]

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.

[Baptiste Mispelon]

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.