Django is “unable to open database file”

Question

after running \"python manage.py syncdb\" i gett an error saying \"unable to open database file\".

here is the important part from my settings.py:

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Answer 1

To change the permission of parent directory, you can use below set of commands:

check apache process for apache v2:

ps -ef | grep apache | grep -v grep

the user/group is www-data

chgrp www-data /path/to/mydir
chmod g+w /path/to/mydir

Ref: https://askubuntu.com/questions/58725/how-do-we-know-that-a-directory-is-apache-writable