Django Middleware Error - Middleware changed for 1.7

Question

Whenever I run my local server with my django project I am getting a warning and an error message saying that in Django 1.7 the global middleware classes were changed - even

Answer 1

I created my project using django 1.11 but when I transferred the files to the web server, I encountered errors with fcgi which forced me to downgrade to 1.8. Therefore the error came up because admin was now expecting MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES instead of MIDDLEWARE. Changing that solved the error.

Answer 2

The MIDDLEWARE setting was introduced in Django 1.10. If you are using Django 1.9 or earlier it will have no effect, and you should be using the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting instead.

Make sure you are using the correct version of the docs (e.g. Django 1.8, Django 1.11), so that you follow the correct instructions.