Django interactive traceback using Werkzeug, `manage.py runserver_plus` Error

Question

The Problem

I'm trying to run the interactive Werkzeug debugger included in Django with my Django project. After executing python manage.py runserver_plus from the command line to start the server with the debugger, I get the error:

Unknown command: 'runserver_plus'
Type 'manage.py help' for usage.

I'm using virtualenv. Here is a look at what I have installed:

Django==1.5.2
Werkzeug==0.9.3
argparse==1.2.1
wsgiref==0.1.2

After looking at the Django documentation and this question,

How to use Werkzeug interactive traceback debugger in a Django project hosted on Heroku?

even though I'm only trying to debug my project locally, everything should be working fine. I have Django installed, I have Werkzeug utils installed (even though I might not need to), and I am running the right command.

Any idea what could be going wrong? this should be a pretty straight forward action.

Theophylline

Answer 1

You need to also install django-werkzeug-debugger-runserver or django-extensions. And add whatever you install into INSTALLED_APPS.

Sash

I'm still getting the same error, even after I've pip installed it and added it to my installed_APPs at the project level. should I add it to the app level as well? – Theophylline

running the regular python manage.py runserver gives me this error now: ImportError: cannot import name AdminMediaHandler – Theophylline

got it to work thanks to your answer. But I still have no idea how to get rid of the import error for the regular runserver or how installing this could have caused it. Thanks though! – Theophylline

link to question for ImportError: cannot import name AdminMediaHandler: Django manage.py runserver throws ImportError AdminMediaHandler – Theophylline

yep INSTALLED APPS should include 'django_extensions'. – Intemperance

Answer 2

Just check if django-extensions is installed:

pip install django-extensions

And django_extensions is added to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    "django_extensions",
]

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