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Asked: 2026-05-26T02:03:58+00:00

I get this error when setting up a server in Django. It is sqlite3

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I get this error when setting up a server in Django. It is sqlite3 which means it should create the .db file but it doesn’t seem to be doing so. I’ve stipulated SQLite as the backend and an absolute file path for where to put it, but no luck.

Is this a bug or am I doing something incorrect? (Was just thinking, is the absolute file path specified differently in Ubuntu?)

Here is the beginning of my settings.py file:

# Django settings for OmniCloud project.

DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

ADMINS = (
# ('Your Name', 'your_email@example.com'),
)

MANAGERS = ADMINS

DATABASES = {
'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
    'NAME': '~/Harold-Server/OmniCloud.db',                      # 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.
}
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    Django NewbieMistakes

    PROBLEM You’re using SQLite3, your DATABASE_NAME is set to the
    database file’s full path, the database file is writeable by Apache,
    but you still get the above error.

    SOLUTION Make sure Apache can also write to the parent directory of
    the database. SQLite needs to be able to write to this directory.

    Make sure each folder of your database file’s full path does not start
    with number, eg. /www/4myweb/db (observed on Windows 2000).

    If DATABASE_NAME is set to something like
    ‘/Users/yourname/Sites/mydjangoproject/db/db’, make sure you’ve
    created the ‘db’ directory first.

    Make sure your /tmp directory is world-writable (an unlikely cause as
    other thing on your system will also not work). ls /tmp -ald should
    produce drwxrwxrwt ….

    Make sure the path to the database specified in settings.py is a full
    path.

    Also make sure the file is present where you expect it to be.

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