Django: relation “django_site” does not exist

Question

I am running a test django server on aws and I just installed django-userena and when I try to signup a user upon clicking submit, I get the following message:

Answer 1

I recently ran into this issue (Django 1.8.7) even with SITE_ID = 1 in my settings. I had to manually migrate the sites app before any other migrations:

./manage.py migrate sites
./manage.py migrate

Answer 2

I have the same problem and fixed it like this:

1. add SITE_ID=1 into settings.py

2. run this command :

   python manage.py migrate
   

Answer 3

if you are getting this error when deploying you django app to Heroku, make sure you have run:

heroku run python manage.py migrate

This worked for me

Answer 4

Going to leave this here for future me:

python manage.py makemigrations allauth

This worked for me, I forgot why, took me too long to figure out how I fixed this the first time

Edit: makemigrations sometimes doesnt make 3rd party things like allauth which some of my projects use, so I have to specify those ones

Answer 5

A horrible code lead to this error for me. I had a global variable to get the current site

SITE = Site.objects.get(pk=1)

this was evaluated during migration and lead to the error.

Answer 6

I got this error while working with django-cookiecutter, django-allauth and django-rest-auth

I literally spent 5 hours pulling my hair out. Eventually gave in and started to comment out bit by bit

What worked for me was commenting out both pre-configured url paths (they come with cookiecutter Django):

# User management
path("users/", include("yourapp.users.urls")),
path("accounts/", include("allauth.urls")),

After that migrations worked.

I uncommented it and my app has worked ever since. It was only for the initial migration

Hope it helps someone!