AttributeError: module 'django.contrib.auth.admin' has no attribute 'site'

Question

I encountered the error:

AttributeError: module 'django.contrib.auth.admin' has no attribute 'site'.

when attempting to get the URL of the Django admin site.

Here is my code in urls.py:

from django.contrib.auth import admin
from django.urls import path, include
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
urlpatterns = [

path('', include('adoption.urls')),
path('accounts/', include('accounts.urls')),
path('admin/', admin.site.urls)
]
urlpatterns= urlpatterns+ static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

Where did I go wrong?

Answer 1

You are looking for the admin module within django.contrib, rather than django.contrib.auth, as per the documentation. The admin module in django.contrib.auth is for customizing authentication, rather than accessing the admin site details.

from django.contrib import admin
path('admin/', admin.site.urls)