The other thing that comes to mind is, have you installed the MySQLdb python library? If you want to connect to a database from a Python app, you must also install a library that bridges Python and the database.
(I apologize in advance if you've already done so). ---Peter On 11/17/08, Karen Tracey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:13 AM, John Antony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I have currently created a database with the following details: >> DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql' >> DATABASE_NAME = 'myforum' >> DATABASE_USER = 'root' >> DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'myforum' >> DATABASE_HOST = 'localhost' >> DATABASE_PORT = '' >> > > Is this a cut and paste from your actual setting files? Because that > setting for DATABASE_ENGINE -- all lowercase mysql -- is correct. > > >> I used phpMyadmin to create the database >> >> I have updated C:\projects\myforum\settings.py in the similar >> fashion.... >> >> However when i run the the following command i get: >> >> C:\projects\myforum>python manage.py runserver >> Validating models... >> Unhandled exception in thread started by <function inner_run at >> 0x027CC670> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands >> \runserver. >> py", line 48, in inner_run >> self.validate(display_num_errors=True) >> File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", >> line 122, >> in validate >> num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app) >> File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\django\core\management >> \validation.py", lin >> e 22, in get_validation_errors >> from django.db import models, connection >> File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\django\db\__init__.py", line 34, >> in <modul >> e> >> (settings.DATABASE_ENGINE, ", ".join(map(repr, >> available_backends)), e_user) >> >> django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: 'MySQL' isn't an >> available database >> backend. Available options are: 'dummy', 'mysql', 'oracle', >> 'postgresql', 'post >> gresql_psycopg2', 'sqlite3' >> Error was: No module named MySQL.base >> > > Whereas what this is saying is that you have 'MySQL' set as your > DATABASE_ENGINE, and that is not correct. Case matters. What you have in > your settings file needs to be all lower case for the DATABASE_ENGINE > setting. > > Karen > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
