Django: m doesn't look like a module path

Question

I can vistit the /admin url

but went I login admin or call my login api. I got this error message

error:

ImportError at /admin/login/
m doesn't look like a module path
Request Method: POST
Request URL:    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Django Version: 1.8.17
Exception Type: ImportError
Exception Value:    
m doesn't look like a module path
Exception Location: /root/.virtualenvs/areyoutired/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/utils/module_loading.py in import_string, line 21
Python Executable:  /usr/local/bin/uwsgi
Python Version: 3.4.3
Python Path:    
['.',
 '',
 '/root/.virtualenvs/areyoutired/lib/python3.4',
 '/root/.virtualenvs/areyoutired/lib/python3.4/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu',
 '/root/.virtualenvs/areyoutired/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload',
 '/usr/lib/python3.4',
 '/usr/lib/python3.4/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu',
 '/root/.virtualenvs/areyoutired/lib/python3.4/site-packages']

I feel like the standard "don't run things like this as root" talk is in order... — Shadow, Mar 15 '17 at 03:48

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '17 at 04:17

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the problem is

my settings

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'member.backends.EmailPasswordBackend'
)

does not have "," behind 'member.backends.EmailPasswordBackend'

so i got "m doesn't look like a module path"

that's so shame on me

answered Mar 15 '17 at 04:17

MrFrank

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To simplify, after 'member.backends.EmailPasswordBackend' add a comma like this 'member.backends.EmailPasswordBackend', – Bilaal Abdel Hassan Sep 05 '22 at 10:58

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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You haven't given enough details to know for certain, however I am going to guess that this is a problem with your AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting. See Django AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS import error for a similar problem.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

Community

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answered Mar 15 '17 at 04:01

Penguin Brian

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 18 '20 at 08:24

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put mysite.DemoRouter.DemoRouter if Demorouter is the class which is in folder mysite

edited May 18 '20 at 08:24

Nandu Raj

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answered May 18 '20 at 07:02

baburajan

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 22 '19 at 05:13

If you have given any backend such as EMAIL_BACKEND, AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS etc to an empty string like EMAIL_BACKEND = "" will throw this error.

Just change it to EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' or the right backend of your choice.

Here you need to provide right AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 07 '22 at 20:12

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should be described with a comma.

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ( ('django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'),)

I had the same error due to a comma miss

answered Jun 07 '22 at 20:12

Muhammad Usman

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Django: m doesn't look like a module path

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