Don’t call your Django application “site” in Google App Engine

This one had me scratching my head for a while today:

I created a Django application called "site" in my project, and although everything was working perfectly locally with the Google App Engine SDK and Google App Engine Django Helper but when I deployed, I got an ImproperlyConfigured error.

Changing the name of the application fixed the issue.

I'm off to file a bug on this... done: Issue 487.

2 Responses to “Don’t call your Django application “site” in Google App Engine”


  1. 1 Selcuk Bozdag

    Did you try that in purpose or accidentally ? Meaning, is there any list around giving such reservered names for Google apps?

  2. 2 Aral

    Hey Selcuk,

    I discovered by accident. Searching on the docs and forum, I couldn’t find anything mentioned.

    Not sure if it’s an issue with the Django Helper or with the GAE SDK itself.

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