Unable to setup mongodb with Django

Question

My Settings.py file has

DATABASES = {
         'default' : {
                       'ENGINE' : 'django_mongodb_engine',
                       'NAME' : 'my_database'
                     }
             }

When I try to run the django I get the following error. I have attached the screenshot of the error

I refered to this document https://django-mongodb-engine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/setup.html MongoDb is up and running in the port 27017 Django Version:1.7 Python :3.4.3

Please suggest the solution to setup the mongodb with django.

Answer 1

I found few reasons why MongoDb-engine(Python ORM form mongo database) tutorial was not working:

1. It supports Python version <3.5

2. And to connect to the database you should put the following code in settings.py

    DATABASES = { 'default' : { 'ENGINE' : 'django_mongodb_engine', 'NAME' : 'my_database' } } 

3. They don't have active developer community

Solution: Follow this tutorial for python>=3.5 and use mongoengine a python object data mapper for MongoDb. http://docs.mongoengine.org/tutorial.html to connect to the database put the following code in your project settings.py

DATABASES = {
        'default' : {
                   'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.dummy'
                    }
         }

from mongoengine import *
connect('dbname') #Database name that you want to use it for the project 

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