Django registration [Errno 10013] error - django

Question

so for some reason this error([Errno 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions), keeps occurring. when i try to use registration in Django. I am using windows 7 and pycharm IDE with django 1.65. I have already tried different ports to run server (8001 & 8008) and also adding permission in windows firewall and kasperesky firewall for python.exe and pycharm. Any suggestion.
Environment:
Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8001/accounts/register/
Django Version: 1.6.5
Python Version: 2.7.8
Installed Applications:
('django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'profiles',
'south',
'registration',
'PIL',
'stripe')
Installed Middleware:
('django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware')
Traceback:
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response
112. response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py" in view
69. return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\registration\views.py" in dispatch
79. return super(RegistrationView, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py" in dispatch
87. return handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\registration\views.py" in post
35. return self.form_valid(request, form)
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\registration\views.py" in form_valid
82. new_user = self.register(request, **form.cleaned_data)
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\registration\backends\default\views.py" in register
80. password, site)
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\django\db\transaction.py" in inner
431. return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\registration\models.py" in create_inactive_user
91. registration_profile.send_activation_email(site)
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\registration\models.py" in send_activation_email
270. self.user.email_user(subject, message, settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL)
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\models.py" in email_user
413. send_mail(subject, message, from_email, [self.email])
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\django\core\mail\__init__.py" in send_mail
50. connection=connection).send()
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\django\core\mail\message.py" in send
274. return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self])
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\django\core\mail\backends\smtp.py" in send_messages
87. new_conn_created = self.open()
File "C:\Users\jasan\Virtual_enviornments\virtual_env_matchmaker\lib\site-packages\django\core\mail\backends\smtp.py" in open
48. local_hostname=DNS_NAME.get_fqdn())
File "C:\Python27\Lib\smtplib.py" in __init__
251. (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
File "C:\Python27\Lib\smtplib.py" in connect
311. self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout)
File "C:\Python27\Lib\smtplib.py" in _get_socket
286. return socket.create_connection((host, port), timeout)
File "C:\Python27\Lib\socket.py" in create_connection
571. raise err
Exception Type: error at /accounts/register/
Exception Value: [Errno 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions

Answer 1

The problem has to do with your email server setup. Instead of figuring out what to fix, just set your EMAIL_BACKEND in settings.py to the following:
if DEBUG:
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
This way, any email sent by django will be shown in the console instead of attempting delivery. You can then continue developing your application.
Having emails printed on the console is good if you are developing, but it can be a headache if your application is sending a lot of emails across.
A better solution is to install mailcatcher. This application will create a local mail server for testing and as a bonus, provide you a web interface where you can view the emails being sent by your server:
It is a Ruby application, and as you are on Windows, I would suggest using rubyinstaller to help with gem installation.
The website also shows you how to configure django:
if DEBUG:
EMAIL_HOST = '127.0.0.1'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
EMAIL_PORT = 1025
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False

Answer 2

This has nothing to do with your webserver ports, this is to do with the host and port that smtplib is trying to open in order to send an email.
These are controlled by settings.EMAIL_HOST and settings.EMAIL_PORT. There are other settings too, see the documentation for details on how to set up email properly.