Re: trying unsuccessfully to access django admin

Well, first things first: set DEBUG=True in your settings. The traceback you got there is saying there's an HTTP 500 error somewhere, so it's looking for a 500.html template to use to display that error. Django only tries to show that page if you have set DEBUG=False. In this case, you need to

trying unsuccessfully to access django admin

when I typed in: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ I got: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\django\core\servers \basehttp.py", line 278, in run self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response) File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\django\core\s