Hi Sameer,
Try adding the path to the GDAL .dll to your settings.py file:
GEOS_LIBRARY_PATH = "C:\OSGeo4W\bin\gdalxx.dll"  <-- replace gdalxx.dll
with the dll in your bin folder, also this assumes default location of
OSGeo4W install, change if necessary.
Let me know if that helps,
Alexei


Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Sameer Paya <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello All,
> Im a Preservation student at the Univeristy of Texas @ San Antonio. Are
> class will be conducting heritage inventory survey and thought we could use
> Arches to do this. As I try to install Version 2 for Windows 32bit, I get
> an error during the "runserver.bat" (step 6: install web framework and
> search engine). Just as the installation guide says 2 windows popped up. I
> have pasted the process that it goes through. I have also put a screen shot
> to show the 2 window. As you can see at the end I get the Django error.
> Please let me know if anyone has experienced this and what I maybe able to
> do to fix this. Thank you
>
> -----------------------------------------
> C:\ARCHES-WEB>start
> C:\ARCHES-WEB\"/archesproject/arches/Search/engines/elastics
> earch-0.90.3/bin/elasticsearch.bat"
> C:\ARCHES-WEB>call "archesproject/virtualenv/ENV/Scripts/activate.bat"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "manage.py", line 28, in <module>
>     execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\core
> \management\__init__.py", line 399, in execute_from_command_line
>     utility.execute()
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\core
> \management\__init__.py", line 392, in execute
>     self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\core
> \management\base.py", line 242, in run_from_argv
>     self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\core
> \management\base.py", line 280, in execute
>     translation.activate('en-us')
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\util
> s\translation\__init__.py", line 130, in activate
>     return _trans.activate(language)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\util
> s\translation\trans_real.py", line 188, in activate
>     _active.value = translation(language)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\util
> s\translation\trans_real.py", line 177, in translation
>     default_translation = _fetch(settings.LANGUAGE_CODE)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\util
> s\translation\trans_real.py", line 159, in _fetch
>     app = import_module(appname)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\util
> s\importlib.py", line 40, in import_module
>     __import__(name)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\cont
> rib\admin\__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
>     from django.contrib.admin.sites import AdminSite, site
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\cont
> rib\admin\sites.py", line 4, in <module>
>     from django.contrib.admin.forms import AdminAuthenticationForm
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\cont
> rib\admin\forms.py", line 6, in <module>
>     from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\cont
> rib\auth\forms.py", line 17, in <module>
>     from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\cont
> rib\auth\models.py", line 48, in <module>
>     class Permission(models.Model):
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\db\m
> odels\base.py", line 96, in __new__
>     new_class.add_to_class('_meta', Options(meta, **kwargs))
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\db\m
> odels\base.py", line 264, in add_to_class
>     value.contribute_to_class(cls, name)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\db\m
> odels\options.py", line 124, in contribute_to_class
>     self.db_table = truncate_name(self.db_table,
> connection.ops.max_name_length(
> ))
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\db\_
> _init__.py", line 34, in __getattr__
>     return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\db\u
> tils.py", line 198, in __getitem__
>     backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE'])
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\db\u
> tils.py", line 113, in load_backend
>     return import_module('%s.base' % backend_name)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\util
> s\importlib.py", line 40, in import_module
>     __import__(name)
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\cont
> rib\gis\db\backends\postgis\base.py", line 5, in <module>
>     from django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis.operations import
> PostGISOperati
> ons
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\cont
> rib\gis\db\backends\postgis\operations.py", line 8, in <module>
>     from django.contrib.gis.geometry.backend import Geometry
>   File
> "C:\ARCHES-WEB\archesproject\virtualenv\ENV\lib\site-packages\django\cont
> rib\gis\geometry\backend\__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
>     '"%s".' % geom_backend)
> django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Could not import user-defined
> GEOME
> TRY_BACKEND "geos".
> Press any key to continue . . .
>
>
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