Re: i've looked at other discussions regarding the error ?unable to open database file?

2009-05-04 Thread Mike Ramirez
On Monday 04 May 2009 10:17:09 am Phil Mocek wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:31:34AM -0700, Mike Ramirez wrote: > > I forgot to mention that sqlite3 expects a file to be there, it > > can't create one on it's own, using ./manage.py syncdb. > > I think you are mistaken. Can you site some

Re: i've looked at other discussions regarding the error ?unable to open database file?

2009-05-04 Thread Phil Mocek
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:31:34AM -0700, Mike Ramirez wrote: > I forgot to mention that sqlite3 expects a file to be there, it > can't create one on it's own, using ./manage.py syncdb. I think you are mistaken. Can you site some documentation to back this claim? I'm using Django 1.0,

Re: i've looked at other discussions regarding the error ?unable to open database file?

2009-05-04 Thread bconnors
touch worked for me. thanks On May 4, 11:31 am, Mike Ramirez wrote: > I forgot to mention that sqlite3 expects a file to be there, it can't create > one on it's own, using ./manage.py syncdb.  To do so I use touch, tho you can > also do the same thing with vi, if you save

Re: i've looked at other discussions regarding the error ?unable to open database file?

2009-05-04 Thread Mike Ramirez
I forgot to mention that sqlite3 expects a file to be there, it can't create one on it's own, using ./manage.py syncdb. To do so I use touch, tho you can also do the same thing with vi, if you save it as an empty file (just tested it). echo "" > testing.db might work also. [gufym...@sylia

Re: i've looked at other discussions regarding the error ?unable to open database file?

2009-05-04 Thread Mike Ramirez
On Monday 04 May 2009 08:16:58 am bconnors wrote: > I deleted the file and > When I do python manage.py syncdb and the message ends up with: You should be using touch, vi might work, if you save it as an empty file, but touch is the best. example: [gufym...@sylia testing]$ ls __init__.py

Re: i've looked at other discussions regarding the error ?unable to open database file?

2009-05-04 Thread bconnors
I deleted the file and When I do python manage.py syncdb and the message ends up with: File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/ __init__.py", li ne 304, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File

Re: i've looked at other discussions regarding the error ?unable to open database file?

2009-05-04 Thread Phil Mocek
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 05:33:05AM -0700, bconnors wrote: > I created a mysite.db in my directory by vi. It's highly unlikely that you will be able to create a valid SQLite database using a text editor. You should delete that file, then expect it to be created when you run the 'syncdb' command.

Re: i've looked at other discussions regarding the error “unable to open database file”

2009-05-04 Thread bconnors
pubu...@pubuntu:~/django-trunk/build/lib/django/bin/mysite$ DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3' # 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'my sql', 'sqlite3' or 'ado_mssql'. DATABASE_NAME = '/django-trunk/build/lib/django/bin/mysite/mysite/ mysite.db' # Or path to database file if using

i've looked at other discussions regarding the error “unable to open database file”

2009-05-04 Thread bconnors
I’m getting the error “unable to open database file” I have sqlite3: pubu...@pubuntu:~/django-trunk/build/lib/django/bin/mysite$ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52) [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more