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I am trying to start up a very basic web app with Django and getting ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ui'

My django project is frontend_project and the app is ui

Tree:

front_end

├── front-end/Pipfile

├── front-end/Pipfile.lock

├── front-end/README.md

├── front-end/db.sqlite3

├── front-end/frontend_project

│   ├── front-end/frontend_project/__init__.py

│   ├── front-end/frontend_project/

│   │   └──front-end/frontend_project/ui

│   │       ├── front-end/frontend_project/ui/__init__.py

│   │       ├── front-end/frontend_project/ui/admin.py

│   │       ├── front-end/frontend_project/ui/apps.py

│   │       ├── front-end/frontend_project/ui/migrations

│   │       │   └── front-end/frontend_project/ui/migrations/__init__.py

│   │       ├── front-end/frontend_project/ui/models.py

│   │       ├── front-end/frontend_project/ui/tests.py

│   │       ├── front-end/frontend_project/ui/urls.py

│   │       └── front-end/frontend_project/ui/views.py

│   ├── front-end/frontend_project/settings.py

│   ├── front-end/frontend_project/urls.py

│   └── front-end/frontend_project/wsgi.py

└── front-end/manage.py

Installed_apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = [

    'django.contrib.admin',

    'django.contrib.auth',

    'django.contrib.contenttypes',

    'django.contrib.sessions',

    'django.contrib.messages',

    'django.contrib.staticfiles',

    'ui.apps.UiConfig',

]

And my frontend_project urls.py looks like:

from django.contrib import admin

from django.urls import path, include



urlpatterns = [

    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),

    path('', include('ui.urls')),

]

ui urls.py

from django.urls import path

from .views import homePageView



urlpatterns = [

    path('', homePageView, name='home'),

]

EDIT: I removed the apps directory and placed the UI app under the project directory - Still experiencing the same error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ui'

I'm just trying to get a simple web app working for right now and my python version is 3.6.7 and pipenv.

Thanks all!

You have configured your project in an atypical way. While not absolutely required, the most straightforward (and most common) way to structure the project is to include your project apps in the root directory, which is the directory that contains manage.py.

In your case, your 'ui' app directory would be located at front_end/front_end/. (Not under /front_end/front_end/front_end/frontend_project/)

IF you want to keep the project structure that you currently have, there are a additional configuration changes necessary, including subclassing AppConfig (see below).

You will also need to use a dotted path to your application urlconf from your root UrlConf (This is the configuration step that you missed that is likely causing the error).

from django.contrib import admin

from django.urls import path, include



urlpatterns = [

    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),

    path('', include('frontend_project.ui.urls')), <--- here

]

In your case, by defining a direct path to 'ui.apps.UiConfig' in INSTALLED_APPS, Django looks for the configuration in the dotted path to the AppConfig subclass for that application which is located in apps.py.

# ui/apps.py



from django.apps import AppConfig



class UiConfig(AppConfig):

    name = 'ui'

I think you need to create an __init__.py file at front-end/frontend_project/apps/

Import urls.py file of Ui app in frontend_project urls.py file.

from django.contrib import admin

from django.urls import path, include

from ui import urls



urlpatterns = [

      path('admin/', admin.site.urls),

      path('', include('ui.urls')),

]

I fixed the issue by moving ui to root as suggested, Thanks everyone!

But I thought that the directory structure was supposed to be project_name/app_name .. apparently, the app is actually supposed to sit in the same directory as the project?