[postgis-users] banging my head on setting up and running geodjango

Smaran Harihar smaran.harihar at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 10:14:53 PDT 2012


thanks for replying. I have attached the settings.py file

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Nabil Servais <nabil.servais at gmail.com>wrote:

> Could you post your settings.py please? I think it's a problem with the
> database section.
> Le 24 avr. 2012 19:03, "Smaran Harihar" <smaran.harihar at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I am really fed up in setting up and running GeoDjango.
>>
>> The first step was to setup the Spatial Database in PostGIS which I was
>> really banging my head when it came to OS X. So i shifted to Ubuntu 11.10
>> and it seemed it was quite easy. Now having completed the post
>> installation process<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/install/#creating-a-spatial-database-template-for-postgis>,
>> I created the required changes that need to be done in the settings.py and
>> now i am trying to,
>>
>> python manage.py sqlall world
>>
>> but it is returning a bunch of errors.
>>
>> (django-env)smaranh at ubuntu:~/geodjango$ python manage.py sqlall world
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
>>     execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
>>   File
>> "/home/smaranh/django-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
>> line 443, in execute_from_command_line
>>     utility.execute()
>>   File
>> "/home/smaranh/django-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
>> line 382, in execute
>>     self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
>>   File
>> "/home/smaranh/django-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
>> line 261, in fetch_command
>>     klass = load_command_class(app_name, subcommand)
>>   File
>> "/home/smaranh/django-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
>> line 69, in load_command_class
>>     module = import_module('%s.management.commands.%s' % (app_name, name))
>>   File
>> "/home/smaranh/django-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py",
>> line 35, in import_module
>>     __import__(name)
>>   File
>> "/home/smaranh/django-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/sqlall.py",
>> line 4, in <module>
>>     from django.core.management.sql import sql_all
>>   File
>> "/home/smaranh/django-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/sql.py",
>> line 6, in <module>
>>     from django.db import models
>>   File
>> "/home/smaranh/django-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py",
>> line 40, in <module>
>>     backend = load_backend(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE'])
>>   File
>> "/home/smaranh/django-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py",
>> line 34, in __getattr__
>>     return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item)
>>   File
>> "/home/smaranh/django-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py",
>> line 92, in __getitem__
>>     backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE'])
>>   File
>> "/home/smaranh/django-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py",
>> line 44, in load_backend
>>     raise ImproperlyConfigured(error_msg)
>> django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured:
>> 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis' isn't an available database
>> backend.
>> Try using django.db.backends.XXX, where XXX is one of:
>>     'dummy', 'mysql', 'oracle', 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'sqlite3'
>> Error was: No module named psycopg2.extensions
>>
>>
>> Really need your help guys.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Smaran Harihar
>>
>>
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Smaran Harihar
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