AttributeError: 'Settings' object has no attribute 'ROOT_URLCONF'

Question

Following on from my last question Error: No module named psycopg2.extensions, I have updated my mac OS to Mountain Lion and installed Xcode. I have also installed psycopg2

Answer 1

If you're working on a Django project, the root of your project(ROOT_URLCONF= variable) isn't defined in your settings.py file, or at least it isn't defined properly.

If you don't have a settings.py file, this block of code should fix the issue:

from django.conf import settings

settings.configure(
# ...
    ROOT_URLCONF=__name__,
# ...
    ),
)

What that does is specify the root of your project runserver knows where to find your project.

If do have a settings.py file, then find that variable and add __name__ to it.