I get the same error if I put just 'mysql'; in the ENGINE setting. So
the backend does not start if the 'ENGINE' filed has 'mysql' or
'django.db.backends.mysql'
So any ideas why this is the case
hari
On Jan 5, 1:12 pm, Marc Aymerich <glicer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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