Are the user and password fields meant  to be blank?

Cheers,
Ryan

On Dec 26, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Dan Richards <rodan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> First off, I am a newbie to django, python and postgres - so I suspect I am 
> missing something obvious, but I am stumped.  Any ideas will be gratefully 
> accepted...
> 
> I get the popular "Improperly configured settings.DATABASES" error message 
> when I run syncdb on my test app.  I am running:
> 
> django 1.4.3
> postgres 9.2
> MAC OS 10.6.8
> 
> I have verified that it is picking up the right settings.py file (the one in 
> the app subdirectory) so I assume there is either something wrong with the 
> settings I have entered or something wrong with postgres.  How does one debug 
> this??
> 
> I can connect to my database via psql, but nothing I have tried seems to work 
> and there seems to be very little I can do to actually debug what the problem 
> is...when the syncdb doesn't work, how do you debug to figure out what 
> exactly isn't working???
> 
> My settings.py file:
> 
> # Django settings for hellodjango project.
> 
> DEBUG = True
> TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
> 
> ADMINS = (
>     ('Joe Smith', 'jsm...@foobar.com'),
> )
> 
> MANAGERS = ADMINS
> 
> DATABASES = {
>     'default': {
>         'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2', # Add 
> 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
>         'NAME': 'test_db1',                      # Or path to database file 
> if using sqlite3.
>         'USER': '',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
>         'PASSWORD': '',                  # 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.
>     }
> }
> 
> # Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
> # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
> # although not all choices may be available on all operating systems.
> # In a Windows environment this must be set to your system time zone.
> TIME_ZONE = 'America/New_York'
> 
> # Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
> # http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
> LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
> 
> SITE_ID = 1
> 
> # If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
> # to load the internationalization machinery.
> USE_I18N = True
> 
> # If you set this to False, Django will not format dates, numbers and
> # calendars according to the current locale.
> USE_L10N = True
> 
> # If you set this to False, Django will not use timezone-aware datetimes.
> USE_TZ = True
> 
> # Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded 
> files.
> # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/media/"
> MEDIA_ROOT = ''
> 
> # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
> # trailing slash.
> # Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com/media/";, "http://example.com/media/";
> MEDIA_URL = ''
> 
> # Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to.
> # Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files
> # in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS.
> # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/static/"
> STATIC_ROOT = ''
> 
> # URL prefix for static files.
> # Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/";
> STATIC_URL = '/static/'
> 
> # Additional locations of static files
> STATICFILES_DIRS = (
>     # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
>     # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
>     # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
> )
> 
> # List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
> # various locations.
> STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
>     'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
>     'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
> #    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
> )
> 
> # Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
> SECRET_KEY = '3*a*mgk*)dcdyzi8v4#2%z^mt^63-uqq5g)q63)xy37ogcqxux'
> 
> # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
> TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
>     'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
>     'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
> #     'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader',
> )
> 
> MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
>     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
>     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
>     'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
>     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
>     'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
>     # Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection:
>     # 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
> )
> 
> ROOT_URLCONF = 'hellodjango.urls'
> 
> # Python dotted path to the WSGI application used by Django's runserver.
> WSGI_APPLICATION = 'hellodjango.wsgi.application'
> 
> TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
>     # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or 
> "C:/www/django/templates".
>     # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
>     # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
> )
> 
> INSTALLED_APPS = (
>     'django.contrib.auth',
>     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
>     'django.contrib.sessions',
>     'django.contrib.sites',
>     'django.contrib.messages',
>     'django.contrib.staticfiles',
>     'kombu.transport.django',
>     'djcelery',
>     # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
>     # 'django.contrib.admin',
>     # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
>     # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
> )
> 
> # A sample logging configuration. The only tangible logging
> # performed by this configuration is to send an email to
> # the site admins on every HTTP 500 error when DEBUG=False.
> # See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging for
> # more details on how to customize your logging configuration.
> LOGGING = {
>     'version': 1,
>     'disable_existing_loggers': False,
>     'filters': {
>         'require_debug_false': {
>             '()': 'django.utils.log.RequireDebugFalse'
>         }
>     },
>     'handlers': {
>         'mail_admins': {
>             'level': 'ERROR',
>             'filters': ['require_debug_false'],
>             'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler'
>         }
>     },
>     'loggers': {
>         'django.request': {
>             'handlers': ['mail_admins'],
>             'level': 'ERROR',
>             'propagate': True,
>         },
>     }
> }
> # Parse database configuration from $DATABASE_URL
> import dj_database_url
> DATABASES['default'] =  dj_database_url.config()
> 
> BROKER_BACKEND = 'django'
> 
> import djcelery
> djcelery.setup_loader()
> 
> 
> 
> And here is the traceback:
> 
> (venv)mac-rodan:hellodjango rodan$ python manage.py syncdb --verbosity 2
> here we are
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
>     execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
>   File 
> "/Users/rodan/testdev/hellodjango/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
>  line 443, in execute_from_command_line
>     utility.execute()
>   File 
> "/Users/rodan/testdev/hellodjango/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py",
>  line 382, in execute
>     self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
>   File 
> "/Users/rodan/testdev/hellodjango/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py",
>  line 196, in run_from_argv
>     self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
>   File 
> "/Users/rodan/testdev/hellodjango/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py",
>  line 232, in execute
>     output = self.handle(*args, **options)
>   File 
> "/Users/rodan/testdev/hellodjango/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py",
>  line 371, in handle
>     return self.handle_noargs(**options)
>   File 
> "/Users/rodan/testdev/hellodjango/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py",
>  line 58, in handle_noargs
>     cursor = connection.cursor()
>   File 
> "/Users/rodan/testdev/hellodjango/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/dummy/base.py",
>  line 15, in complain
>     raise ImproperlyConfigured("settings.DATABASES is improperly configured. "
> django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: settings.DATABASES is improperly 
> configured. Please supply the ENGINE value. Check settings documentation for 
> more details.
> 
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