django.db.utils.OperationalError: unable to open database file

Question

When I run

python manage.py runserver

I get this error

File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django-1.10.1-py2.7.egg/django

Answer 1

For me, the issue was that I had two settings files; one for production and one for development. In my manage.py, I'd specified the deployment settings file and forgotten to add manage.py to my .gitignore, so when I ran the project locally it failed when trying to find the production database.