How to correct this error: “'Adminsite' object has no attribute 'root'”

Question

The full error message is:

AttributeError on running Django app on apache as localhost -- \'Adminsite\' object has no attribute \'root\'

Answer 1

Your url for admin should be:
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls))
not (r'^admin/(.*)', admin.site.root)
- it's for Django 1.0. For Django 1.3 it wouldn't work.

Answer 2

Another possible issue here, which I encountered, is that admin has not been properly configured in the settings.py file. Anyone having this issue would want to check that their installed apps include django.contrib.admin. Reference https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/faq/admin/ for details.