Question

I’m trying to get South to work – it worked fine on my PC, but I’m struggling to deploy it on my webhost.

Right now it seems that any changes I make to add/remove items from INSTALLED_APPS aren’t being picked up by syncdb or diffsettings. I’ve added south to my list of INSTALLED_APPS, but the tables it needs aren’t being created when I run syncdb. If I change other settings, they are picked up, it just seems to be INSTALLED_APPS that doesn’t work.

If I run

from south.db import db

from the shell I get with manage.py shell, I don’t get any import errors, so I don’t think it’s a problem with where south is. I’ve tried removing all my other applications (other than the Django standard ones), and tables for them still get created when I run syncdb.

Even if I delete INSTALLED_APPS completely, I still get the old list of INSTALLED_APPS when I run manage.py diffsettings.

Any ideas what I’ve done wrong?

Thanks,

Dom

Answer 1

The answer, it turns out, is that I’m a moron. I’d done this:

In settings.py:

...
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
)
...

from localsettings import *

In localsettings.py

...
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
)
...

I’d created localsettings.py from settings.py, to contain things only relevant to the current location of the project (like database settings), and forgot to delete the INSTALLED_APPS section.

Apologies for doing such a flagrantly stupid thing.