I set up my app using the following tutorial, http://django-mongodb-engine.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/setup.html When I set my backend as detailed in this link in my setti
django-mongo-db-engine does not work with Django 1.7. It uses Django-nonrel, (a fork of Django) instead of Django.
Try creating your dev environment again, but this time, do not install Django 1.7.