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
3299	"[patch] the name of project cannot have the name ""site"""	anonymous	Adrian Holovaty	"hi all, 

$django-admin.py startproject site
$cd site
$python manage.py runserver

and he say he is in a bad moon



{{{
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""manage.py"", line 11, in ?
    execute_manager(settings)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.95-py2.4.egg/django/core/management.py"", line 1319, in execute_manager
    execute_from_command_line(action_mapping, argv)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.95-py2.4.egg/django/core/management.py"", line 1237, in execute_from_command_line
    from django.utils import translation
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.95-py2.4.egg/django/utils/translation/__init__.py"", line 3, in ?
    if settings.USE_I18N:
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.95-py2.4.egg/django/conf/__init__.py"", line 27, in __getattr__
    self._import_settings()
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.95-py2.4.egg/django/conf/__init__.py"", line 54, in _import_settings
    self._target = Settings(settings_module)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.95-py2.4.egg/django/conf/__init__.py"", line 82, in __init__
    raise EnvironmentError, ""Could not import settings '%s' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): %s"" % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e)
EnvironmentError: Could not import settings 'site.settings' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named settings

}}}

to bypass that just not name your project ""site"", but I thing when you start with you have that error, you spend lots of time to find what's going wrong, 
a simple message with "" site bad name change name"" is not a lot.




"	defect	closed	contrib.admin		normal	fixed	site INVALID_PROJECT_NAMES		Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0