DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2',
'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
'NAME': 'django', # Or path to database file
if using sqlite3.
'USER': 'name', # Not used with sqlite3.
'PASSWORD': 'pass', # Not used with sqlite3.
'HOST': '/var/run/mysql', # Set to empty string for
localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
'PORT': '', # Set to empty string for default.
Not used with sqlite3.
}
}
this is my setting in settings.py file. I have Mysql server running .Now I
run *python manage.py shell *to start python interpreter. Then in the
interreter I type the following command *to check the connection to database
*:
>>>from django.db import connection
>>>cursor = connection.cursor()
and it gives me the *following error*:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\__init__.py", line
306,
in cursor
cursor = self.make_debug_cursor(self._cursor())
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\mysql\base.py",
line 38
7, in _cursor
self.connection = Database.connect(**kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\__init__.py", line 81, in
Connect
return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\connections.py", line 187, in
__in
it__
super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2)
OperationalError: (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost'
(10061)")
* I am using windows 7.*
*please help me fix it. it is driving me crazy. I have googled it, gone
through different forums but am not able to fix it. Please help me.*
*thankyou.*
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