Why do I get a “auth_user does not exist”error when running “migrate” on a newly created django project with “registration redux” app installed?

Question

Given a newly created django project with the following installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
\'django.contrib.admin\',
\'django.contrib.auth\',
\'django.contrib.co         


        

Answer 1

Once you create a migration for your app it will automatically add the necessary dependencies. So in this case just run ./manage.py makemigrations registration.

Please check the registration/migrations/0001_initial.py file and you should see something like this:

dependencies = [
    migrations.swappable_dependency(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL),
]

This means you need to create migrations for all your apps with any kind of dependency.