Django SQLITE3 BASE_DIR not working when moving machines

Question

So I have the following code which specifies the path of where my db file is located on my system.

It works flawlessly on the computer which I have created my django project in. However, when I move the project to a different machine, it does not find the db.sqlite3 file and instead creates a new one in the root directory of that machine, so I have to create a DB_DIR and manually specify the path and cannot use BASE_DIR for the database connection.

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    }
}

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try this (Django 3):

import os
from pathlib import Path

BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': BASE_DIR / 'db.sqlite3',
    }
}