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 24066 Django 1.6 Postgis 2.x detection broken Matthias84 nobody "Hi, I realy enjoy (geo)Django to rapidly develop smal GIS applications for some time now. Unfortunatly, I guess I found a bug: If you install Django and try to add GIS functionality thanks to Postgres+PostGIS, django seems to be unable to detect PostGIS correctly and reports at syncdb and similat commands: {{{ Cannot determine PostGIS version for database ""django_geotest"". GeoDjango requires at least PostGIS version 1.3. Was the database created from a spatial database template? }}} There is a workaround by faking the postgis version manually, that work for me: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10584852/my-postgis-database-looks-fine-but-geodjango-thinks-otherwise-why My setup: * Linux Mint 17 * Python 2.7 and venv * Django 1.6.8 * Postgres 9.3 and PostGIS 2.1 following the official tutorial " Bug closed GIS 1.6 Normal needsinfo postgis detection Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0