Django manage.py Unknown command: 'syncdb'

Question

I'm trying to follow this tutorial but I'm stuck on the 5th step.

When I execute

[~/Django Projects/netmag$] python manage.py syncdb

I get the following error message :

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

and here is the output of ./manage.py help does not contain syncdb command. How do I add it?

Thanks for any help!

Edit :

When I run migrate, I get this error :

"Error creating new content types. Please make sure contenttypes " RuntimeError: Error creating new content types. Please make sure contenttypes is migrated before trying to migrate apps individually.

in settings.py :

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django.contrib.admindocs',
    'blog',
]

Edit 2:

If I remove 'blog', from settings.py :

:~/Django Projects/netmag$ python manage.py migrate blog
CommandError: App 'blog' does not have migrations. 

:~/Django Projects/netmag$ python manage.py makemigrations blog 
App 'blog' could not be found. Is it in INSTALLED_APPS?

Solution 1

syncdb command is deprecated in django 1.7. Use the python manage.py migrate instead.

Solution 2

You have to use python manage.py migrate instead rather than python manage.py syncdb

Solution 3

Run python manage.py makemigrations result below

Migrations for 'blog':
blog/migrations/0001_initial.py:
- Create model Blog

and after that run python manage.py migrate result below

Operations to perform:
Apply all migrations: admin, blog, auth, contenttypes, sessions
Running migrations:
Applying article.0001_initial... OK

Solution 4

the actual command is :

python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb

It will solve many errors in django like , Operational error ,No Table found in databse etc.

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Comments

[jeff]

Thanks! I'm surprised that Google didn't bring that to my attention :D

[catavaran]

Try to remove your app from the INSTALLED_APPS and run migrate again. The error still occurs?

[jeff]

I pasted the result in the question

[catavaran]

Hm. Return the blog back to the INSTALLED_APPS and then run python manage.py migrate contenttypes?

[alexef]

You can run manage.py migrate --run-syncdb if you have old applications that don't have migrations.