Django model “doesn't declare an explicit app_label”

Question

I\'m at wit\'s end. After a dozen hours of troubleshooting, probably more, I thought I was finally in business, but then I got:

Model class django.contrib.co         


        

Answer 1

For PyCharm users: I had an error using not "clean" project structure.

Was:

project_root_directory
└── src
    ├── chat
    │   ├── migrations
    │   └── templates
    ├── django_channels
    └── templates

Now:

project_root_directory
├── chat
│   ├── migrations
│   └── templates
│       └── chat
├── django_channels
└── templates

Here is a lot of good solutions, but I think, first of all, you should clean your project structure or tune PyCharm Django settings before setting DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE variables and so on.

Hope it'll help someone. Cheers.