ImproperlyConfigured at XXX | settings does not seem to load

[agateblue]

Hi,

first of all, thank you for this app, it seems great. However, I can't get it to work !

I followed the docs and informations from this blog entry but on every request, I get the following error :

ImproperlyConfigured at /

Put 'django.contrib.contenttypes' in your INSTALLED_APPS setting in order to use the admin application.

If I remove admin.site.urls from my urls.py, i get this :

ImproperlyConfigured at /

settings.DATABASES is improperly configured. Please supply the ENGINE value. Check settings documentation for more details.

If I understand correctly, my settings are not loaded at all. But :

• python manage.py validate does not raise any error. My settings seems to load, as shown by some print statements i've put in settings files
• on django error debug page, when I scroll down, I can see that my settings values are listed and correct (even values that are considered as missing by error text)

Here is my folder structure (kii is the name of my project) : kii ├── settings │   ├── components │   │   ├── apps_settings.py │   │   ├── base_settings.py │   │   ├── kii_settings.py │   │   └── locale_settings.py │   ├── dev.py │   ├── init.py

Here is content of init and dev files :

settings/init.py

from split_settings.tools import optional, include
include(
    'components/kii_settings.py',
    'components/base_settings.py',
    'components/apps_settings.py',
    'components/locale_settings.py',
    'dev.py',
    scope=locals()
)

settings/dev.py

import os
print('local_settings loaded')
DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

ADMINS += (
# ('Your Name', 'your_email@example.com'),
)

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
        'NAME': 'XXXX',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
        # The following settings are not used with sqlite3:
        'USER': 'root',
        'PASSWORD': 'XXXX',
        'HOST': '',                      # Empty for localhost through domain sockets or '127.0.0.1' for localhost through TCP.
        'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default.
        'OPTIONS': {
        "init_command": "SET storage_engine=MyISAM",
        } 

        }
        }
ALLOWED_HOSTS=[]
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, "media")

INSTALLED_APPS += (
    'debug_toolbar',
) 

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (    
    'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',
)

DEBUG_TOOLBAR_CONFIG= { "INTERCEPT_REDIRECTS":False}

And finally, the whole error stacktrace :

Environment:

Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Django Version: 1.5.5
Python Version: 2.7.3
Installed Applications:
('django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.humanize',
'django.contrib.admindocs',
'menus',
'south',
'sekizai',
'jquery',
'mptt',
'modeltranslation',
'polymorphic',
'django_markdown',
'crispy_forms',
'autocomplete_light',
'django_extensions',
'djcelery',
'kombu.transport.django',
'purl_js',
'jqueryui',
'contextmenu',
'base_items',
'classify',
'library',
'user',
'kii',
'widgets',
'permissions',
'import_export',
'kii_menus',
'search',
'debug_toolbar')
Installed Middleware:
('debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',)

Traceback:
File "/home/eliotberriot/Envs/kii/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response
92.                     response = middleware_method(request)
File "/home/eliotberriot/Envs/kii/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py" in import_module
35.     __import__(name)
File "/home/eliotberriot/kii/kii/urls.py" in <module>
23.     url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),  
File "/home/eliotberriot/Envs/kii/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/sites.py" in urls
257.         return self.get_urls(), self.app_name, self.name
File "/home/eliotberriot/Envs/kii/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/sites.py" in get_urls
215.             self.check_dependencies()
File "/home/eliotberriot/Envs/kii/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/sites.py" in check_dependencies
165.             raise ImproperlyConfigured("Put 'django.contrib.contenttypes' in "

Exception Type: ImproperlyConfigured at /
Exception Value: Put 'django.contrib.contenttypes' in your INSTALLED_APPS setting in order to use the admin application.

Am I missing something obvious ? Thank you for your time and your help, just tell me if you need more informations.

[roxeteer]

Is the file name actually settings/init.py? It should be settings/__init__.py to make it a proper Python package.

(I guess this reply comes a bit late, though :smile:)

[agateblue]

Better late than never ! Honestly, I don't remember the context of this, and my code use a totally different approach for settings management now, so I won't be able to provide additional data :/