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Problems using MongoEngine in Django - raise ImproperlyConfigured("settings.DATABASES is improperly configured

I try to get Django 1.5.1 up and running with mongoengine as a second DB backend, but failing big times.

My settings.py includes the following:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'DaTaBaSe',                      
        'USER': 'root',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': 'localhost', 
        'PORT': '3306',                  
    },
    'tracking': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.dummy',
        'NAME': 'analytics',
    }
}

I have a DB router that already takes care of assigning the right app to the mongoDB, which seems to work, as I am seeing the following error in my celery task. 

File "/mypath/base.py", line 15, in complain
raise ImproperlyConfigured("settings.DATABASES is improperly configured. "

ImproperlyConfigured: settings.DATABASES is improperly configured. Please supply the ENGINE value. Check settings documentation for more details.

Any suggestion and idea is welcome.

Solution

  • 'django.db.backends.dummy' is a dummy implementation Django will use when no ENGINE is given or ENGINE is an empty string. Every method of the backend API raises ImproperlyConfigured (except for connection.close() actually)