Need help on Django tutorial Part 2

Using Django Getting Started
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Hello, my polls app is not showing up on my admin page. Here’s the tutorial for reference. Writing your first Django app, part 2 | Django documentation | Django

I feel like I did everything exactly as stated and couldn’t find a similar issue when searching. If anyone could offer help I would be very grateful. I found the issue could be in the settings.py file under installed apps but I think mine looks fine.

my settings.py file:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'polls.apps.PollsConfig',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

And then polls/admin.py

from django.contrib import admin

from .models import Question

admin.site.register(Question)

The admin page shows nothing and I am stumped.

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I tried giving the superuser permissions too an nothing changed.

Thank you for the help.

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Did you stop and restart runserver after making these changes?

What URL are you going to?

That’s not the complete page - or if it is, then you’ve got some cached css that is messing up the display.

Go to the root url for the admin (usually admin/) and hit shift-refresh (or shift-F5). Post another image, but this time of the complete browser window.

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Thank you for replying.

Following the tutorial I did the ''python manage.py runserver ‘’ after creating the superuser. The tutorial says If the server is not running start it like so:
$ python manage.py runserver

I received the response: ‘Error: That port is already in use.’

Here is the full screenshot with the URL

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That means you already have the server running. You need to stop the running instance before restarting it.

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Hmm… I’ve tried control C and then when I try the runserver command again it gives the same error.

Is there a preferred way to stop running it?

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Yes, control-C should stop the process and return you to the command prompt.

What happens in your command prompt window when you hit control-c?

Also it might help to describe your development environment a bit. What operating system are you using? What versions of Python and Django? Are you using a virtual environment?

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(django3) 00:54 ~/django_projects/mysite (main)$ ^C
(django3) 00:56 ~/django_projects/mysite (main)$ 
(django3) 00:56 ~/django_projects/mysite (main)$ python manage.py runserver
Watching for file changes with StatReloader
Performing system checks...
System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
August 31, 2022 - 00:56:13
Django version 3.2.5, using settings 'mysite.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
Error: That port is already in use.
(django3) 00:56 ~/django_projects/mysite (main)$ ^C

Control C just does ‘^C’. I tried looking up alternative kill commands as well but each time I runserver after I get the same error.

I am using python anywhere which is Linux but I am on a PC. I am using a virtual environment, Django version 3.2.5, python 3.8

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Ok, python anywhere is a cloud-based service, isn’t it? In which case running runserver locally is meaningless.

You need to restart your instance of runserver in python anywhere.

Unfortunately, I don’t use it and don’t know anything about it. Hopefully someone else here may be able to help you.

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Yes, it’s cloudbased. Thank you for your help. I’ll update if I figure it out

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Hello,

Thank you, Ken, for pointing out this was an issue with PythonAnywhere, as I was hyper-focused on looking for a typo in my code.

I simply needed to reload the changes from the webapps page, not runserver.

If anyone else ever has this issue, the answer is simple and in this document: