Error from 'site'

Using Django Getting Started
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I’m new to Django and I keep getting an error that says:
AttributeError: module ‘base.admin’ has no attribute ‘site’

This is from:
urlpatterns = [
path (‘admin/’, admin.site.urls) ]

I have checked and I do have the latest instalment of Django as I saw that this could be the reason why it isn’t working but I still am unable to get through this problem.

2

This is not the right syntax for your url specification.
What tutorial or doc are you working from?

3

I’ve been watching several youtube tutorials and copied them exactly and yet i’m confused how it doesn’t work for me.

4

If you have “copied it exactly”, then it’s an error in the video, because that syntax is wrong.

You’re better off starting with the official Django docs. I suggest you begin with the official Django tutorial.

Also, two side notes:

  1. When posting a file like this from a tutorial, it’s often helpful to post the entire file. There’s always the possibility that the error message being reported is a result of something wrong earlier in that file.
  2. When posting code here, enclose the code between lines of three backtick - ` characters. This means you’ll have a line of ```, then your code, then another line of ```. This forces the forum software to keep your code properly formatted, which is critical with Python.
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5

I apologize, I was mistaken, I misread what you had posted here. The syntax of that line is correct, the issue would be somewhere else.

Side note: When posting code (or templates, error messages, etc) here, enclose the code between lines of three backtick - ` characters. This means you’ll have a line of ```, then your code, then another line of ```. This forces the forum software to keep your code properly formatted.

If you’re still having a problem, please post the entire contents of that urls.py file.
Also include your INSTALLED_APPS setting from your settings.py.