Thanks a million Romain!! It worked. I thought about just naming it, but in the tutorial it said put the path and I didnt want to mess up things.
Thanks again!! Best Z. On May 11, 10:37 am, Romain Gaches <romain-dja...@ssji.net> wrote: > Le 11 mai 2010 à 10:30, HelloWorld a écrit : > > > Hi Everybody > > > I installed Django and wanted to test what I can do by using Sqlite. > > It is unclear for me how this can be achieved and therefore have the > > following open questions: > > > 1. Do I need to fill in the settings.py any other info than: > > django.db.backends.sqlite3 at ENGINE > > What do I/ Do I need to fill in in NAME, USER, HOST an where can I > > create the PASSWORD. > > All you need is the ENGINE and NAME (path to your db file). > As Sqlite isn't a C/S engine, there's no host/user/password info needed. > > > 2. If Django creates the db file, where can I find it? What is the > > default name? > > It's the name you defined in the NAME parameter. > > > 3." If the file doesn't exist, it will automatically be created when > > you synchronize the database for the first time (see below)." Is this > > done by this command "python manage.py syncdb". Once you start the > > server in the commandline, it is no longer possible to enter a > > command. So I opened a new tab and typed this command and got this > > answer: > > > "Please fill out DATABASE_NAME in the settings module before using the > > database." > > > So there I am at the beginning again. > > Sqlite creates the file if it doesn't exist. But you must define the filename > in the NAME setting. > > -- > Romain Gaches > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
