Changes between Version 69 and Version 70 of NewbieMistakes

Timestamp:

Jun 28, 2018, 11:20:07 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

Michael Jonaitis

Comment:

This seems to be an issue with older versions of Django.

NewbieMistakes

@@ -65 +65 @@
 You're trying to get your URLconf files to work, but getting cryptic errors about how there is no module 'index' (where 'index' is some function you are trying to assign as a view), or module 'foo' has no attribute 'urlpatterns'.
 
-==== Probable cause ====
+77==== Probable cause ====
 
 You may have tried to load your view files using include() in the URLconf file (in tutorial 3, this is myproject/settings/urls/main.py). The include() call assumes that the file it's loading is also a URLconf file.
@@ -449 +449 @@
 ==== Solution ====
 Make sure that template used to display the page actually contains the tags {% block content %} {% endblock %} wrapping your form definition in the template file.
+
+== The SECRET KEY setting must not be empty. ==
+
+==== Symptom ====
+
+You're attempting to run the Django shell from your terminal (ie.  python manage.py shell), for either the first time or after rebooting your system.  Instead of a Django shell opening, you are presented with the following error.
+
+django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty.
+
+
+==== Probable cause ====
+
+A DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE has not been specified as an environment variable and therefore no settings file could be loaded as the shell attempts to open.
+
+==== Solution ====
+
+Add a DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable with the appropriate python module in your shell.  
+
+{{{
+export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=<projectname>.settings
+}}}