Installing django-haystack

Question

Super simple question: I went through the "getting start" doc for haystack (using whoosh; I installed both python-whoosh and haystack using pip (first time using it)), and I simply cannot run python manage.py rebuild_index. I get this error:

python manage.py rebuild_index
Unknown command: 'rebuild_index'
Type 'manage.py help' for usage

I do have 'haystack' listed in my INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py, so this solution doesn't seem to work for me. I also don't get import errors when I run "import haystack" so it does exist. I tried this on my existing project as well as a brand new object made just for this and I just can't get it to work.

However, when I import haystack after python manage.py shell and try haystack.__version__ I get "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute ' version '". I get a similar error if I try haystack.management : it has no management attribute.

It must be something super simple I'm missing. Thank you for reading this!

Answer 1

Did you perhaps install the wrong thing? This (embarrassingly) happend to me just today. Make sure you install 'django-haystack' and not just 'haystack' (and you will have to remove 'haystack', since it conflicts with 'django-haystack').

Answer 2

1. Do you have the path to haystack in your Python path? (Either the PYTHONPATH shell variable or the sys.path Python list.)

2. Did you run python manage.py syncdb ?

3. Does python manage.py shell followed by import haystack work?

4. After import haystack , what do you get for haystack.__version__ ?

5. In the same shell, type the following. Do you get errors for any of them?

   • haystack.management.commands
   • haystack.management.commands.rebuild_index
   • haystack.management.commands.rebuild_index.Command.help

Answer 3

I had the same error that you did, and fixed it by removing the old .egg and installing directly from the latest version. You can use easy_install:

easy_install https://github.com/toastdriven/django-haystack/zipball/v1.2.4

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

我刚遇到同样的问题，并且没有在settings.py中设置HAYSTACK_SITECONF。

Answer 5

而不是使用python manage.py rebuild_index尝试使用./manage.py rebuild_index

Answer 6

只是做pip uninstall haystack和

pip install django-haystack

Answer 7

I had the same problem - for whatever reason, the haystack version in pip is quite old and obsolete (v 0.6 as of today). To use django-haystack check out the v1. source .

It compiles and installs simply with

python setup.py build
python setup.py install

Hope that helps!