Question

I’m going through the standard Django tutorial to create an admin for an app. After commenting the admin related stuff in settings and running syncdb I’m getting this message:

DoesNotExist at /admin/ Site matching query does not exist.

Can anyone help me figure this out?

Answer 1

The Site object for your Django project is missing. Each Django project has a Site object which contains the site’s name and domain. It is usually automatically created when creating a Django project (in particular, when the syncdb command runs) but in your case it seems that didn’t happen.

To fix it:

Open the Django shell for your site (python manage.py shell).

Type the following:

>>> from django.contrib.sites.models import Site
>>> Site.objects.create(name='example.com', domain='example.com')

If you want to change these values later, go to your admin panel (/admin/) and edit the site object in the section Sites.