Django - ImproperlyConfigured: Module “django.contrib.auth.middleware”

Question

I\'m running a virtualenv to try to learn Django, but for whatever reason after installing Django and when I try to access the default Django start page, I get the following

Answer 1

I was getting the same error. But i had forgotten to get into my VirtualEnv BEFORE running my server. So make sure that from terminal you first activate virtualenv: source env/bin/activate Then run: python manage.py runserver