Module “django.core.context_processors” does not define a “auth” callable request processor

Question

I have a Django live website , i want to do some kind of maintenance on it but when I downloaded it and tried to open it from my local machine and my debug mode is true I

Answer 1

First check your Django version:

go into your app and run

$./manage.py shell
import django
django.get_version()

In Django >1.4 the previously deprecated-marked setting DATABASE_ENGINE is removed. (This deprecation/removal like tic/toc-cycle is typical for the Django project. )

I am using the following code to fix legacy scripts, which for some reasons have to be kept obsolete...

    if not ((hasattr(settings, 'DATABASE_ENGINE') and (settings.DATABASES['default']['ENGINE'] or 'ENGINE' in [x for y in settings.DATABASES.itervalues() for x in y]))):
      try:
        setattr(settings, 'DATABASE_ENGINE', settings.DATABASES['default']['ENGINE'])
      except:
        raise Exception('No default ENGINE set in settings.DATABASES!')

Hope this helps.