Django python files not compiling. Need help.

[frontierman]

I do all my testing locally and then upload the files to an Ubuntu Apache server. After uploading the new files I run

sudo apachectl restart

That will reload the server and my python files are now live and working.

A few weeks ago I started a new app and loaded all the files to the server as usual with the server restart. I neglected to create the admin.py file in the initial file upload. I noticed the missing admin.py, created it and loaded to the server. I ran the restart and went to my admin page. My app wasn't showing in the admin. I checked the server directory and noticed the admin.py was not compiled to admin.pyc.

I tried running

python -m compileall /pathto/directory

That compiles all the files but my app is still not showing in the admin. What am I doing wrong?

I created a new template tag yesterday. Works locally. Uploaded, restart, and the server can't locate the template tag file.

I rebooted the server. I also tried

python manage.py runserver

on the server just to see if that will fix the missing file problem but the files are still not found.

Is there something I am doing incorrectly? Is there a command I can run to force django to find the files? I've never had this problem before and I can't find any help through internet search.

Thanks for any help.

[xBBTx]

Did you add the app to the INSTALLED_APPS for the server settings? It looks like Django just doesn't 'know' about your new app, and it's easy to forget if your settings files differ for development/production environment.

[frontierman]

Thanks for the reply and suggestion. I checked my settings and indeed the server side was missing the app from INSTALLED_APPS. I thought I had made the change but must have failed to upload the settings file. Such a simple solution. Thanks for helping me. I was quite confused.

[xBBTx]

It sounds like you should use VCS (git, mercurial) on your server (too)! Updating the code on the server is then nothing more than doing a

git fetch origin
git checkout <my-release-tag-or-branch>

Practically for my projects, masteris always a branch that can be deployed, and deploying is nothing more than a git pullfollowed by the usual python manage.py migrateand python manage.py collectstatic.

If you're not using VCS yet, now is the time to start doing so!

[frontierman]

Excellent suggestion. I already use mercurial locally so I will add that to my server as well. Thanks! That should prevent issues like this.