[django] Django: OperationalError No Such Table

I'm building a fairly simple application, research, in my Django project that uses Django-CMS. (It's my first ground-up attempt at a project/application.) It's main purpose is to store various intellectual assets (i.e article, book, etc. written by a researcher).

The problem is that when I point the browser to /research/ I get an error saying that the table 'research_journal' doesn't exist ("no such table").

I'm using Djnago 1.6.5 with a sqlite3 database.

Looking at python manage.py sql research yields:

BEGIN;
CREATE TABLE "research_researchbase" (
    "id" integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    "pub_date" datetime NOT NULL,
    "authors" varchar(200) NOT NULL,
    "year" varchar(25) NOT NULL,
    "title" varchar(200) NOT NULL,
    "subtitle" varchar(200) NOT NULL,
    "image_id" integer NOT NULL REFERENCES "filer_image" ("file_ptr_id"),
    "link" varchar(200) NOT NULL
)
;
CREATE TABLE "research_journal" (
    "researchbase_ptr_id" integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES "research_researchbase" ("id"),
    "journal" varchar(200) NOT NULL,
    "abstract" text NOT NULL,
    "citation" varchar(200) NOT NULL
)
;
CREATE TABLE "research_encyclopedia_chapter" (
    "researchbase_ptr_id" integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES "research_researchbase" ("id"),
    "encyclopedia" varchar(200) NOT NULL,
    "publisher" varchar(200) NOT NULL,
    "summary" varchar(200) NOT NULL
)
;
CREATE TABLE "research_book" (
    "researchbase_ptr_id" integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES "research_researchbase" ("id"),
    "publisher" varchar(200) NOT NULL,
    "summary" varchar(200) NOT NULL
)
;

COMMIT;

I've run python manage.py migrate research and get:

/Users/XXX/Documents/repos/sfs/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/app_data/fields.py:2: DeprecationWarning: django.utils.simplejson is deprecated; use json instead.
  from django.utils import simplejson as json

Running migrations for research:
- Nothing to migrate.
 - Loading initial data for research.
Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

I've run python manage.py syncdb and get the following:

Syncing...
Creating tables ...
Installing custom SQL ...
Installing indexes ...
Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Synced:
 > djangocms_admin_style
 > django.contrib.auth
 > django.contrib.contenttypes
 > django.contrib.sessions
 > django.contrib.admin
 > django.contrib.sites
 > django.contrib.sitemaps
 > django.contrib.staticfiles
 > django.contrib.messages
 > mptt
 > south
 > sekizai
 > django_select2
 > hvad

Not synced (use migrations):
 - djangocms_text_ckeditor
 - cms
 - menus
 - djangocms_style
 - djangocms_column
 - djangocms_file
 - djangocms_flash
 - djangocms_googlemap
 - djangocms_inherit
 - djangocms_link
 - djangocms_picture
 - djangocms_teaser
 - djangocms_video
 - reversion
 - polls
 - djangocms_polls
 - aldryn_blog
 - easy_thumbnails
 - filer
 - taggit
 - research
(use ./manage.py migrate to migrate these)

Here's the models.py:

from django.db import models
from django.utils import timezone
from filer.fields.image import FilerImageField

import datetime

class ResearchBase(models.Model):
    pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published')
    authors = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    year = models.CharField(max_length=25)
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    subtitle = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=True)
    image = FilerImageField()
    link = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=True)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.title

    def was_published_recently(self):
        return self.pub_date >= timezone.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)


class Journal(ResearchBase):
    journal = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    abstract = models.TextField()
    citation = models.CharField(max_length=200)


class Encyclopedia_Chapter(ResearchBase):
    encyclopedia = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    publisher = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    summary = models.CharField(max_length=200)


class Book(ResearchBase):
    publisher = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    summary = models.CharField(max_length=200)

Here's my views.py (note that I am passing two objects through render, ignore the fact that I have yet to include the class Books in the whole deal):

from django.shortcuts import render, get_object_or_404
from django.http import HttpResponse, Http404
from django.template import RequestContext, loader

from research.models import Journal, Encyclopedia_Chapter, Book

def research_index(request):
    latest_journal_list = Journal.objects.order_by('-pub_date')[:5]
    latest_chapter_list = Encyclopedia_Chapter.objects.order_by('-pub_date')[:5]

    context = {
        'latest_journal_list': latest_journal_list,
        'latest_chapter_list': latest_chapter_list
    }

    return render(request, 'research/index.html', context)

def journal_detail(request, journal_id):
    journal = get_object_or_404(Journal, pk=journal_id)
    return render(request, 'research/journal_detail.html', {'journal': journal})

def chapter_detail(request, chapter_id):
    chapter = get_object_or_404(Encyclopedia_Chapter, pk=chapter_id)
    return render(request, 'research/chapter_detail.html', {'chapter': chapter})

Here's the application's url.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url

from research import views

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', views.research_index, name='research'),
    url(r'^(?P<journal_id>\d+)/$', views.journal_detail, name='journal_detail'),
    url(r'^(?P<chapter_id>\d+)/$', views.chapter_detail, name='chapter_detail'),
)

Here's the index.html template:

{% extends 'research/base.html' %}

{% block research_content %}

<div class="container">
    <div class="row featurette">
        <h3 id="research">Peer-reviewed Journal Articles</h3>
        {% if latest_journal_list %}
            <ul id="research">
            {% for journal in latest_journal_list %}
                <li id="research">
                            <img src="{{ journal.image.url }}" id="research">
                            <h4>{{ journal.journal }}</h4>
                            <h5>{{ journal.title }}</h5>
                            <a href="{% url 'research:journal_detail' journal.id %}">Read More</a>
                        </li>
            {% endfor %}
            </ul>
        {% else %}
            <p>No journals are available.</p>
        {% endif %}
    </div>

    <div class="row featurette">
        <h3 id="research">Encyclopedia Chapters</h3>
        {% if latest_chapter_list %}
            <ul id="research">
            {% for chapter in latest_chapter_list %}
                <li id="research">
                            <img src="{{ chapter.image.url }}" id="research">
                            <h4>{{ chapter.journal }}</h4>
                            <h5>{{ chapter.title }}</h5>
                            <a href="{% url 'research:chapter_detail' chapter.id %}">Read More</a>
                        </li>
            {% endfor %}
            </ul>
        {% else %}
            <p>No encyclopedia chapters are available.</p>
        {% endif %}
    </div>
</div>

{% endblock %}

Just in case it matters, here's my cms_app.py:

from cms.app_base import CMSApp
from cms.apphook_pool import apphook_pool
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _


class ResearchApp(CMSApp):
    name = _("Research App")
    urls = ["research.urls"]
    app_name = "research"

apphook_pool.register(ResearchApp)

Thoughts? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Running the following commands solved this for me 1. python manage.py migrate 2. python manage.py makemigrations 3. python manage.py makemigrations appName

For django 1.10 you may have to do python manage.py makemigrations appname.

I'm using Django CMS 3.4 with Django 1.8. I stepped through the root cause in the Django CMS code. Root cause is the Django CMS is not changing directory to the directory with file containing the SQLite3 database before making database calls. The error message is spurious. The underlying problem is that a SQLite database call is made in the wrong directory.

The workaround is to ensure all your Django applications change directory back to the Django Project root directory when changing to working directories.

This comment on this page worked for me and a few others. It deserves its own answer:

python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb

The Thing that worked for me:

1. Find out which migrations in your migration folder created the table if not add the class in your models.py.
2. If the class already exist in your models.py, try to delete that one and run python manage.py makemigrations <appname>
3. And while migrating fake that migrations as your error might say table not found to delete using python manage.py migrate <yourappname> --fake
4. Add the class again and makemigrations again python manage.py makemigrations <appname>.
5. And finally migrate again python manage.py migrate <appname>

This error comes when you have not made migrations to your newly created table, So,firsty write command on cmd as: python manage.py makemigrations and then write another command for applying these migrations made by makemigrations command: python manage.py migrate

If anyone finds that any of the suggested:

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb

fail, you may need to add a folder named "migrations" inside the app directory, and create an empty __init__.py file.

This happened to me and for me it was because I added db.sqlite3 as untracked from repository. I added it and pushed it to server so it worked properly. Also run makemigartions and migrate after doing this.

I got through the same error when I went on to the admin panel. You ought to run this instead-: python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb. Don't forget to include migrate, I ran:

python manage.py make migrations and then python manage.py migrate

Still when the error persisted I tried it with the above suggested command.

The issue may be solved by running migrations.

1. python manage.py makemigrations
2. python manage.py migrate

perform the operations above whenever you make changes in models.py.

I'm using Django 1.9, SQLite3 and DjangoCMS 3.2 and had the same issue. I solved it by running python manage.py makemigrations. This was followed by a prompt stating that the database contained non-null value types but did not have a default value set. It gave me two options: 1) select a one off value now or 2) exit and change the default setting in models.py. I selected the first option and gave the default value of 1. Repeated this four or five times until the prompt said it was finished. I then ran python manage.py migrate. Now it works just fine. Remember, by running python manage.py makemigrations first, a revised copy of the database is created (mine was 0004) and you can always revert back to a previous database state.

If you get to the bottom of this list and find this answer, I am almost sure it will solve all your issues :) In my case, I had dropped a database table and I was not getting anywhere with makemigrations and migrate

So I got a very detailed answer on how to reset everything on this link