I have a Cookiecutter Django project in which I'd like to add a "SiteSettings" model to control constants. My first instinct was to run manage.py startapp site. However I received the following message:
CommandError: 'site' conflicts with the name of an existing Python module and cannot be used as an app name. Please try another name.
Upon closer inspection, it appears that Cookiecutter already created a sites module within contrib, but with no models.py file. So I decided to make a models.py with the SiteSettings model in this directory.
However when I run makemigrations it says: No changes detected in app 'sites'
How can I add my desired model to this module and get migrations working for this module?
You will run into countless problems if you follow this path. Just use another name and do manage.py startapp newname.
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I have trouble with my makemigrations command.
Note: I have successfully make migrations till now, so it is not the first time I try to make migrations on this project.
I have my project in INSTALLED_APPS.
Problem: For some reason project stop detecting any changes in my models.
Inside my project models.py I have:
from myproject.myfolder import myModel1
from myproject.myfolder import myModel2
from myproject.myfolder import myModel3
if a add new models as myModel4 class and import it inside models.py and I try to
python mamange.py makemigrations environment=local
I get No changes detected
I know there are a lot of posts of making the initial migrations, so I even try
python manage.py makemigrations myproject environment=local
I even try to delete all files in __pycache__ but it doesn't work for me.
I even try to delete database and create new one, and it doesn't work either.
EDIT:
Because I delete the database and make it new again, database is empty, but I still get same message.
I just ran into an issue like this. In my case, the problem was that I had installed, through pip, the stable version of the package that I was developing, and Django was importing the stable version rather than my development version. To check if this is the case with you, try adding a syntax error to models.py. If makemigrations doesn't trigger the syntax error, then you'll know that your version is not even being loaded by the python interpreter.
If your model is not inheriting from django model then, you will see aforementioned error. Make sure that your custom model inherits from django models.Model, something like this.
from django.db import models
class Posts(models.Model):
...
Deleting the DB and creating new one will never work since it refer the previous migration files. Delete all previous migration files and pycache files except init. Then try running these.
python manage.py migrate --fake-initial
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
This worked for me
I needed to add more fields to Django's User model, so I created a custom model class (named Accounts in an app named accounts) that extends Django's AbstractUser class.
After that, I updated my settings.py file, defining the AUTH_USER_MODEL property:
AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'accounts.Accounts'
I then created a migration file for the custom model using the python manage.py makemigrations command.
After that, I ran the python manage.py migrate command and I got this error message:
ValueError: The field admin.LogEntry.user was declared with a lazy reference to 'accounts.accounts', but app 'accounts' isn't installed.
What's the cause of the error and how can I fix it?
UPDATE:
Now, if i run the python manage.py makemigrations command, I get this error message:
ValueError: The field admin.LogEntry.user was declared with a lazy reference to 'accounts.accounts', but app 'accounts' doesn't provide model 'accounts'.
You just delete your previous 0001_initial.py in the migrations folder and try doing the makemigration and migrate again
I have the similar problem. It is the admin app has the cache and migrations history. I solve it by deleting all the cache and migrations history record(pycache file, and 0001.intial etc., keep init.py only) in
YouProject\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\migrations
I too had a similar problem when I changed the name of one of my apps, I had to delete migrations files at two locations, all migrations for the specific app migration folder, then migrations at "Your-project-env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/migrations".
You didn't add accounts to your INSTALLED_APPS. From the comment, I can see accounts.apps.AccountsConfig in your list of apps. Instead of it, just add accounts to your INSTALLED_APPS
It's just because you have already an instance of default user model I think. Start a new project and migrate your models again and it should work.
I have the same problem.
look under your class in models.py, change the app_label to the name of your application, I put the name of the class, and then the error came. doing this I think it fixes the errors.
class Meta:
app_label = 'put_app_name'
Sorry for some grammar error, I'm using google translator.
I'm coding a web app with django and now I'm starting to handle users.
I'm trying to do the easy part, just create a new user throught admin interface, but when I try to do it I get a error and I don't find any info about it.
I enter django admin, log in with superuser, go to users, add user.
It only asks for: username and password.
When I submit changes then I get a NOT NULL constraint failed, this:
NOT NULL constraint failed: auth_user.last_login
I revised django documentation, and there it says to create a user like this:
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
user = User.objects.create_user('john', 'lennon#thebeatles.com', 'johnpassword')
So, I open a terminal, and do "./manage.py shell" "import django" "import User" and then I try this code, but fails too, it says:
NameError: name 'User' is not defined
Maybe I've changed something in the first part of the project? I've created models, templates, urls and used /static/ for references to files.
Thanks for your help!
last_login field changed in django 1.8. Just run the migrations
python manage.py migrate
Same issue, Had to run python manage.py migrate --fake and then python manage.py migrate and it worked perfectly.
In the app folder there is migration folder.. remove all files from it just keep pycache folder and init.py
then execute python manage.py migrate and then python manage.py makemigrations ..
simply we are removing the older migrations and migrating them again
According to the Django docs, if I want to create an initial migration for an app, I should do:
$ python manage.py makemigrations my_app
However, if I do that in my project, I get:
No changes detected in app 'my_app'
even though there are no migrations for my_app yet - the my_app/migrations/ folder only has an __init__.py file.
I do NOT have managed = False in my model. The model classes in question don't even have a Meta class defined. What else can prevent Django from detecting model changes?
How does Django detect if/when there are changes?
Update:
I should add that migrations for this particular app worked fine back when I was using South migrations. It's only after upgrading to Django 1.7, and built-in migrations, that it can no longer figure out if/when there are model changes for that particular app (migrations for other apps work fine).
A little late, but having just hit this after creating a brand new app, it suddenly dawned on me that I hadn't added the new app to the INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py.
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
my_app,
...
)
Doing that and then re-running python manage.py makemigrations my_app generated the initial migration.
You might want to look for a "migrations" directory somewhere in your virtualenv home directory or on your path.
I ran a few times into some similar issue, when trying to migrate an app from South to Django 1.7 migrations. For some reason, Django wouldn't find the correct migrations folder, and so would create the migration into an unlikely location such as <virtualenv>/bin/myapp/migrations dir (when using django-admin.py). So everytime I'd run makemigrations Django would find this "stale" migration, and display the No changes detected in app 'my_app' message.
Sorry if I'm vague on the specifics, I'll update next time I run into this issue.
I am a newbie at Django and everytime I try to run
python panel/manage.py startapp %app% (panel is my project) it gives me the error:
Error: '%app%' conflicts with the name of an existing Python module and cannot be used as an app name. Please try another name.
Am I doing something wrong?
Surely companies or contacts or stats is not the name of an existing Python module?
This is a fun one - your project and your app need to have different names. You probably created a project, then tried to startapp with the same name.
I was confused as well, until I realized that a Django project is a container for applications; this sequence makes it a bit clearer:
# first create a Project (container).
django-admin.py startproject Project
# create multiple apps
cd Project
python manage.py startapp polls
python manage.py startapp hello
...
Perhaps you need to
cd panel
python manage.py startapp yourappname
I'm not sure running the command from a directory above your project will work properly.
I had the same issue because I was trying to "restart" my app after carrying out changes, but startapp is meant to be used once to create a new app. To view changes, syncronize app with DB with python manage.py migrate and restart the server with python manage.py runserver instead.
From the django-admin docs
(manage.py does essentially the same thing as django-admin)
startapp <app_label> [destination]
django-admin startapp
Creates a Django app directory structure for
the given app name in the current directory or the given destination.
By default the directory created contains a models.py file and other
app template files. (See the source for more details.) If only the app
name is given, the app directory will be created in the current
working directory.
If the optional destination is provided, Django will use that existing
directory rather than creating a new one. You can use ‘.’ to denote
the current working directory.
For example:
django-admin startapp myapp /Users/jezdez/Code/myapp
This message is displayed if you run "startapp" twice with the same app name. As pointed out above by the OP it doesn't reload the app, it creates one.
You should choose different names for your project and app in Codes:
django-admin startproject **my_project**
python manage.py startapp **my_app**
You need to create the directory before using the commands. Suppose you want a polls app inside apps folder.
mkdir apps apps/polls
python manage.py startapp polls apps/polls
I guess maybe you have already created the app's dir in panel dir manually. The command 'startapp' is to create an app automatically. If you already have one there, it fails.
I reproduced the issue and there's actually something not working as I expected.
I wonder if we stumbled upon a Django's bug, or a limitation that I don't understand.
Having a project called "project" and an empty folder app/newapp
…I tried:
python manage.py startapp newapp apps/newapp
It returns:
CommandError: 'newapp' conflicts with the name of an existing Python module and cannot be used as an app name. Please try another name.
But if I target ANY other route in which the last folder is not called the same name as the app I'm starting, it works.
So I ended up doing:
python manage.py startapp newapp apps/main
Using Django 2.1.3.
if you want to make an empty directory that will contain your new app
project-dir
└── blog
├── __init__.py
├── ...
├── blog-ext #this empty dir that will contain the new app
└── views.py
so instead of typing :
python manage.py newapp blog/blog-ext
it should be :
django-admin startapp newapp blog/blog-ext
Try classic "mysite" or "myproject". You can delete it anytime you want, so if it will accepted, then all your privious ideas conflict with Python modules.
Edit: I tried all your ideas, there was no error for me. So, if you installed support libraries or modules for django, then some of them can contains such names.
this error is because of the name conflicts between the app name and project name.you had given same name for your app and project .your project and app need to be different name .if you had given the same name the above mentioned error will occur .
understand the difference between app and project
Projects vs. apps
What’s the difference between a project and an app? An app is a Web application that does something – e.g., a Weblog system, a database of public records or a simple poll app. A project is a collection of configuration and apps for a particular Web site. A project can contain multiple apps. An app can be in multiple projects.
first create the project.
then create the app.
NOTE: name for app and project should be different
first create a project with projectname
django-admin.py startproject Projectname .
Then create app with appname. (to create your app make sure you are in the same directory manage.py and type this command)
python manage.py startapp Appname
It's the process how I got my doubt clear.
First, I created a directory inside my project directory and put __init__.py, models.py, admin.py, apps.py & views.py.
Then I ran python manage.py runserver & It work well.
Then as suggested on that page I used startapp command. I got this error :
CommandError: 'ucportal' conflicts with the name of an existing Python
module and cannot be used as an app name. Please try another name.
After that I deleted that directory and ran startapp command with same name and it worked fine.
So 'startapp' command is to create an app automatically. If you already have one there, it fails.
Answer given by #DAG worked for me.
I ran into this issue while trying to set up a Wagtail project.
Before creating the app, I had created and activated a virtualenv (using virtualenvwrapper) with the same name: $APPNAME. When I then ran wagtail start $APPNAME, Django looks for naming conflics in the $PYTHONPATH which in this instance points to /Users/User/.virtualenvs.
Naturally, this results in a conflict as /Users/User/.virtualenvs/$APPNAME already exists.
None of these answers helped me. In the end I ended up creating an app with a different name and then just renaming the directory to the app name I wanted all along. Note that you also will need to change the class name in apps.py to match your app name.
Just Simply Use This command
for Django Project Creation
python -m django startproject name_of_django_Project
for Django App Creation
python -m django startapp App_name
I had the same issue when working with wagtail cms. I got this error even there is no such a created app. This occurs when there is an app already that has the same name you need to create inside the site-packages directory.
Once you get this error, you need to check the following directory,
C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Lib\site-packages
If there is a package with the name same you want to create then you need to remove that package. Also make sure to check that package is important or not before deleting.
The application directory should be created first.
Example: apps/practice
The command appears to be duplicated, but it is correct.
Example: python manage.py startapp practice ./apps1/practice