On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:38 AM, harijay <hari...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi I just started using the subversion build of django and mysql-
> python with python 2.6.3
> Both django (svn 12103) and _mysql (MySQLdb rev 635) work fine and can
> be imported from the command line python without any error messages.
> I created a new django testproject and then modified my settings.py to
> use the mysql backend ( see DATABASE section below).
>
> But when I start python manage.py runserver 8080 , I get an error
> which I am reproducing here indicating that the backend was not
> started.
>
> Any ideas on what I need to change to have my django launch with the
> mysql backend.
> Thanks
> harijay
>
> The error I get is
>
> ^Chariharan-jayarams-macbook-pro-17:testdjnew hari$ python manage.py
> runserver 8080
> Validating models...
> Unhandled exception in thread started by <function inner_run at
> 0x7a3670>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/Users/hari/djtrunk/django/core/management/commands/
> runserver.py", line 48, in inner_run
> self.validate(display_num_errors=True)
> File "/Users/hari/djtrunk/django/core/management/base.py", line 249,
> in validate
> num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
> File "/Users/hari/djtrunk/django/core/management/validation.py",
> line 22, in get_validation_errors
> from django.db import models, connection
> File "/Users/hari/djtrunk/django/db/__init__.py", line 74, in
> <module>
> connection = connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS]
> File "/Users/hari/djtrunk/django/db/utils.py", line 75, in
> __getitem__
> backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE'])
> File "/Users/hari/djtrunk/django/db/utils.py", line 37, in
> load_backend
> raise ImproperlyConfigured(error_msg)
> django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured:
> 'django.db.backends.mysql' isn't an available database backend.
> Try using django.db.backends.XXX, where XXX is one of:
> 'dummy', 'mysql', 'oracle', 'postgresql', 'postgresql_psycopg2',
> 'sqlite3'
> Error was: cannot import name conversions
>
> My settings.py has nothing special after my new settings.py creation
> other than the following database section:
>
> DATABASES = {
> 'default': {
> 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', # Add
> 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
> 'NAME': 'mytestdb', # Or path to database
> file if using sqlite3.
> 'USER': 'root', # Not used with sqlite3.
> 'PASSWORD': 'mypass', # Not used with
> sqlite3.
> 'HOST': '', # Set to empty string for
> localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
> 'PORT': '', # Set to empty string for
> default. Not used with sqlite3.
> }
> }
>
>
>
in 'ENGINE': just put 'mysql'
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