Question

I’ve been following the polls tutorial up until the point where I should have a login page for the admin backend. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial02/

Instead I get the welcome page like this:

I have enabled the admin app in INSTALLED_APPS, synced the db and tweaked urls.py so I’m not sure what the problem is.

Running apache2 with mod_wsgi.

urls.py:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
 from django.contrib import admin
 admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Example:
    # (r'^testproject/', include('testproject.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
     (r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
     (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

Settings.py:

...
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
     'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
     'django.contrib.admindocs',
     'polls'
)
...

Tables:

Database changed

mysql> SHOW TABLES;
+----------------------------+
| Tables_in_django_test      |
+----------------------------+
| auth_group                 |
| auth_group_permissions     |
| auth_message               |
| auth_permission            |
| auth_user                  |
| auth_user_groups           |
| auth_user_user_permissions |
| django_admin_log           |
| django_content_type        |
| django_session             |
| django_site                |
| polls_choice               |
| polls_poll                 |
+----------------------------+

Answer 1

Are these two lines really indented one space, as appears in your post?

 from django.contrib import admin
 admin.autodiscover()

You’ll get an IndentationError if you do that. Put them flush against the left margin.

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Later: Oh I see in a comment above that you found this indentation error. Marking my answer as community wiki.