Well, looks like things are suddenly working. I started over, and
changed two things: I removed the path from the database file name and
I gave it an extension of .db. The file appeared in the same place as
before, so my path was right, but the .db extension seems to have made
something quite happy as things are now working quite nicely.

On 3/2/11, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/2/11, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 23:14 -0500, Alex Hall wrote:
>>> I get a very long traceback, ending with sqlite3.OperationalError:
>>> unable to open database file.
>>
>> looks like a permissions problem. Does the webserver have permissions to
>> write to the parent directory of the sqllite file?
> Sorry, but how would I tell? I am on Windows7x64, Python2.7.
>>
>> btw, it is good practice to paste the traceback at the bottom of your
>> mail (yes it is long, but people here are experts at reading and
>> diagnosing from them)
> Okay, here it is:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "manage.py", line 11, in <module>
>     execute_manager(settings)
>   File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py",
> line 438, in execute_manager
>     utility.execute()
>   File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py",
> line 379, in execute
>     self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
>   File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py",
> line 191, in run_from_argv
>     self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
>   File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py",
> line 220, in execute
>     output = self.handle(*args, **options)
>   File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py",
> line 286, in handle
>     app_output = self.handle_app(app, **options)
>   File
> "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\sql.py",
> line 19, in handle_app
>     return u'\n'.join(sql_create(app, self.style,
> connections[options.get('database',
> DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS)])).encode('utf-8')
>   File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\sql.py",
> line 26, in sql_create
>     tables = connection.introspection.table_names()
>   File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\__init__.py",
> line 504, in table_names
>     cursor = self.connection.cursor()
>   File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\__init__.py",
> line 75, in cursor
>     cursor = self._cursor()
>   File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\sqlite3\base.py",
> line 174, in _cursor
>     self.connection = Database.connect(**kwargs)
> sqlite3.OperationalError: unable to open database file
>
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