admin of comments depends on table django_site

[jobcello]

I started a new site, included 'django.contrib.comments', but left out the 'django.contrib.sites' from the INSTALLED_APPS.

I synced the db.

When trying to manage comments through the admin interface (URL: "​http://localhost:8080/admin/comments/comment/"), got the error:

OperationalError at /admin/comments/comment/
no such table: django_site

To get this admin page working, I added 'django.contrib.sites' to the INSTALLED_APPS. Then I synced the db. Then I immediately commented that line ('django.contrib.sites') out from INSTALLED_APPS. In other words, just having the table in the db made it work.

[jobcello]

The error page

[Collin Grady]

well comments do have a ForeignKey to Site, so it stands to reason that the app has to be in use for comments to work right

[Thejaswi Puthraya]

Well, the comments site doesn't depend on the table but the Site model as pointed out by cgrady. You could have problems later on if you continue to have the sites framework commented out because the comments app uses it.

The sites framework is a pre-requisite for the comments app. I am closing this as a won't fix because removing the sites framework would mean removing features from the comments app.