[Django]-Django 3.2 exception: django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured

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I don’t think your error is directly related to that SECRET_KEY change in your question.

AppConfig.name should be the full Python path to the application. Since you appear to have users inside an apps module, you should use 'apps.users' instead of 'users'

class UsersConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'apps.users'
👤Alasdair

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If your django applications are in a folder like (app, apps, applications, etc..), you have to specify the absolute path in your app_name/apps.py file to the name attribute, see the image below.

Fugure 1.1 django apps vscode demo

On this image my users (1) app is in the app folder that’s why a have to use app.users (3), (4).

👤Gedeon Mutshipayi

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I am having this issue suddenly with Django 3.2. Why now I am not exactly sure, but adding this to my settings.py file fixed it for me. I need to understand the structural issue causing this. It might be because our Django project contains many apps grouped together.

from django.apps import AppConfig

AppConfig.default = False

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/applications/#django.apps.AppConfig.default

You can also set this individually on at an app level. This may be a better solution. I am still missing the reasoning for why this is necessary.

from django.apps import AppConfig


class DashboardConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'dashboard'
    default = False
👤Sherd

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The solution for me was to simply delete the apps.py file entirely – Django now managed to find the app automatically.

👤Pedro A

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