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A Django settings file is a Python module with module-level variables that contains all the configuration of your Django installation such as, Databases, Installed apps and Media and Static location to name a few.

Django settings file is a Python module with module-level variables that contains all the configuration of your Django installation such as: Databases, Installed apps and Media and Static location to name a few.

Here are a couple of example settings, extracted from the documentation:

DEBUG = False
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'webmaster@example.com'
TEMPLATE_DIRS = ('/home/templates/mike', '/home/templates/john')
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Django - ImproperlyConfiguredError, Guardian's ANONYMOUS_USER_ID

I am using django-guardian to handle object permissions. In my settings.py: ANONYMOUS_USER_ID = -1 However, when I try to run the server, I get an improperly configured error: django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: In order to use…
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a single filename inside __init__.py facilitating split settings management for django project @readthedocs.org

https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/tree/master/readthedocs/settings I arrived at the link above from https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SplitSettings. Can someone explain how that particular configuration works? Especially, the part played…
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deploy static files with Django modpython

I have always wondered how static files are found by server when using Django. Recently I deployed my Django app to a server and I had trouble deploying static files. I always get the error as following : Using the URLconf defined in cms.urls,…
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Django Database Improperly Configured when function called outside of Django

I'm trying to call a python function that makes some queries into my django database from GNU mailman. When mailman tries to deliver a message, it imports my python script. It later calls a function in my script to modify the message object. The…
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Using completely project-independent settings for testing

I'm trying to test an app that creates some custom permissions during intialization. These are created right after database creation: custom_permissions = getattr(settings,'SOMEAPP_PERMISSIONS',() ) def create_custom_permissions(sender, **kwargs): …
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Use Django logging facility in settings.py

My settings.py contains a lot of imports in try/catch blocks like: try: import gcframe except ImportError: # log gcframe is not available pass etc. I'd like to use Django logger to log which modules are missing, but Django docs…
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Upgraded to Django 1.4 but admin is still looking in media dir for static files

I upgraded to Django 1.4 and now my admin static files won't load. relevant part of my settings file looks like: MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'media') # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a # trailing…
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Keep on getting this error message when trying to run my django server: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I'm trying to run my django server but keep on getting this error, [Errno 2] No such file or directory. I tried using the cd manage.py command but also got this error cd : Cannot find path 'C:\Users\nyaknoiton\Desktop\Django 2\manage.py' because it…
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Django templateview not recognizing my template_name

Currently I have in settings set my main directory to the templates folder so that I have a project level templates. Within that folder I have a home.html file. TEMPLATES = [ { 'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates', …
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pythonanywhere: Something went wrong :-(

When I'm uploading my DRF app to pythonanywhere, the server shows the following log error: 2022-07-15 01:06:14,933: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Rest_API_Framework.settings'. However, I don't understand why, since if we look at…
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How to structure the templates folder in django and to use the extends

I have a folder, templates, structured like below /Users/AndyKw/Documents/Python/Else/Yes/templates Within templates, I have two folders, admin and registration (see below for the tree) templates (need.html) | |-- admin | |-- registration…
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Why django not storing files in media folder?

My settings.py MEDIA_ROOT='/static/' MEDIA_URL='media' My urls.py from django.conf import settings from django.conf.urls.static import static urlpatterns=[ #all routes ] if settings.DEBUG: urlpatterns+=static(settings.MEDIA_URL,…
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Why 404 error occurs even though I have set STATIC_ROOT and urls.py

I don't know why, but I get 404 errors when trying to use static file like this: {% static 'js/some.js' %}. Here's my urls.py urlpatterns = [ path('admin/', admin.site.urls), path("account/", include("account.urls")), path("",…
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Django server not starting

I am unable to start the server, it's giving me the error below, i am using only one model and migrations seems to be fine, any clue where i am going wrong in this File "C:\Users\atifs\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\threading.py", line…
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Connect Django to MySql database on VPS

I am trying to run my Django project on a VPS. My Django project uses MySQL. While running it on my local computer I used the following code to connect MySQL to Django DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 'NAME':…
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