Django - ImproperlyConfigured: Module “django.contrib.auth.middleware”

Question

I\'m running a virtualenv to try to learn Django, but for whatever reason after installing Django and when I try to access the default Django start page, I get the following

Answer 1

I encountered an issue similar to this today (Using OS X Mavericks).

First of all, do you have django installed to your base OS? Before using Virtualenv I was running Django directly on the OS. The main thing I noticed is I usually type django-admin, not django-admin.py. This was calling Django outside of the virtualenv, which was version 1.7.1.

Outside of my virtualenv I ran pip uninstall django, then went back into my Virtualenv. Running django-admin --version without a .py at the end returned "zsh: command not found: django-admin" (it used to return 1.7.1), however, running django-admin.py --version returned 1.6.5.

Check to make sure you aren't accidentally bringing in an outside version of django directly from your OS, you may need to type django-admin.py