Hi, I'm also a newb going through this tutorial and got stuck on the exact
same thing. I'm using mac, but I also needed to put '.db' on it, and now
it's working great! Thanks for posting up that solution! I was just fitzing
with it the last half-hour to no avail. But now i got it! woo!
On Wednesday, March 2, 2011 3:43:40 PM UTC-6, Alex wrote:
>
> 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 <meh...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
> > On 3/2/11, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com <javascript:>>
> 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
> >
> >> --
> >> regards
> >> KG
> >> http://lawgon.livejournal.com
> >> Coimbatore LUG rox
> >> http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/
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