Friday, February 18, 2022

[SOLVED] Django - ImproperlyConfigured: Module "django.contrib.auth.middleware"

Issue

I'm running a virtualenv to try to learn Django, but for whatever reason after installing Django and when I try to access the default Django start page, I get the following error in the browser:

A server error occurred. Please contact the administrator.

In the terminal window where I am running the server says the following error:

ImproperlyConfigured: Module "django.contrib.auth.middleware" does not define a "SessionAuthenticationMiddleware" attribute/class

If anyone has any insight as to why I'm getting this error in the virtualenv, I'd appreciate it. I can get the server to run correctly in a non-virtualenv setup, though.

Here is the full stack trace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/wsgiref/handlers.py", line 85, in run
    self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)
  File "/Users/jruecke/Python/JSON/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.6.5-py2.7.egg/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 187, in __call__
    self.load_middleware()
  File "/Users/jruecke/Python/JSON/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.6.5-py2.7.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 45, in load_middleware
    mw_class = import_by_path(middleware_path)
  File "/Users/jruecke/Python/JSON/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.6.5-py2.7.egg/django/utils/module_loading.py", line 31, in import_by_path
    error_prefix, module_path, class_name))
ImproperlyConfigured: Module "django.contrib.auth.middleware" does not define a "SessionAuthenticationMiddleware" attribute/class
[16/Sep/2014 22:44:30] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 500 59
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/wsgiref/handlers.py", line 85, in run
    self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)
  File "/Users/jruecke/Python/JSON/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.6.5-py2.7.egg/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 187, in __call__
    self.load_middleware()
  File "/Users/jruecke/Python/JSON/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.6.5-py2.7.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 45, in load_middleware
    mw_class = import_by_path(middleware_path)
  File "/Users/jruecke/Python/JSON/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.6.5-py2.7.egg/django/utils/module_loading.py", line 31, in import_by_path
    error_prefix, module_path, class_name))
ImproperlyConfigured: Module "django.contrib.auth.middleware" does not define a "SessionAuthenticationMiddleware" attribute/class

Solution

easy solution

just remove

'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',

from

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
...
...
)

in your project's settings.py

then, it should work!



Answered By - Shubham Badal
Answer Checked By - Candace Johnson (WPSolving Volunteer)
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