ImproperlyConfigured: settings.DATABASES is improperly configured. about django-mongoengine HOT 12 CLOSED

Hi man, not support django 1.6, on requeriment file recommend used django 1.5!

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Got it. Thanks!

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Actually, just downgraded to Django 1.5. Still getting the same error.

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Same here. Django 1.5.1

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It has something to do with INSTALLED_APPS
when I copied INSTALLED_APPS as it is from the example site after removing debug_toolbar it works fine

INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'django_mongoengine.auth',
'django_mongoengine.admin.sites',
'django_mongoengine.admin',
'django.contrib.admin',
'main'
)

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when you set django database engine to 'django.db.backends.dummy' it's supposed to throw that error when something accessing db;

closing issue.

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I'm facing the same issue. My DATABASES settings looks like this:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.dummy'}
}

which I got from here

@last-partizan if the engine is not set to 'django.db.backends.dummy' then what it should be set to? Also, I was wondering if the project is supposed to support migrations?

Below my requirements.txt:

Django==1.8
django-rest-swagger==0.3.4
djangorestframework==3.3.0
mysqlclient==1.3.7
PyYAML==3.11
wheel==0.24.0
gunicorn==19.3.0
rest_condition==1.0.2
virtualenvwrapper==4.7.1
PyJWT==1.4.0
django-jenkins==0.18.1
coverage==4.0.3
pep8==1.6.2
pyflakes==1.0.0
mongoengine==0.10.0
django-rest-framework-mongoengine==3.3.0
-e git://github.com/MongoEngine/django-mongoengine.git#egg=django-mongoengine

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Original error is raised by django when it's using something that needs db access.
You can configure it to whatever you want. If you need another db with migrations - just configure it like always.

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Hi all

I'm having the same problem.

I'm using Django REST Framework, Mongoengine and Django REST Framework Mongoengine

It's clear that the exception is raised because the settings.DATABASES is not set, once when using mongoengine, this is not required.

How should we proceed? Use a MySQL to authentication and Mongoengine to anything else? I really don't know how to proceed.

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Probably yes, it's better to use mysql or postgres for basic django parts like auth/contenttypes, and mongo for anything else.

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Hm

I think that using two different databases on the same application is not a "good practice", but it seems that is the only option if we want the power of Django REST Framework and Mongoengine together.

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python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

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