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

Smaran Harihar smaran.harihar at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 10:21:26 PDT 2012


how do I verify if my database is proper?

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Smaran Harihar
<smaran.harihar at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>
> --
> Thanks & Regards
> Smaran Harihar
>
>


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Thanks & Regards
Smaran Harihar
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