Question
Django can't get access to sqlite3 database
- Posted on April 6, 2016
- NginxDjangoLet's EncryptDigitalOcean 1-Click Apps MarketplaceSecurityUbuntu
Asked by kenschnall
I am currently running a server instance of the one-click install option for Django Ubuntu 14.04.
This server is running a Django app using NGINX, sqlite3, and gunicorn.
I set up letsencrypt properly and it is used to serve my website with ssl.
I deleted all of the files in /home/django/dango_project/ and replaced them with my own.
When I load my website, everything works fine, except for my admin site.
I am able to log in to the admin site when I run the django_project locally, but it isn’t working when the project is in production at my website.
You can verify that my db.sqlite3 file exists and contains posts by going to kensch.com/blog.
With debug disabled, my website gives a Server Error (500) after I log in to my admin site.
With debug enabled, my website gives OperationalError at /admin/ attempt to write a readonly database after logging into the admin site.
I have been trying to get into my admin site for nearly 5 hours now, no google searches are helping.
I appreciate any help in advance!
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open puTTy once you link the ip address and login cd into file location ie cd /home/django/django_project/ then enter
chown django:django db.sqlite3
Through research I found out that someone answered–and it worked for me–the solution perfectly (sorry, I did so much research that I do not remember who or where was it):
cd project-folder sudo chown www-data .
Mind the space between www-data and the period.
Best,
Laurentino
I had the same problem which gave me a lot of headache but this small line of code ‘chmod a+w db.sqlite3’ performed the magic and it worked perfectly. Thank you santopolsky