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I've installed and configured the Django app LBForum on Windows 8.1 and cannot get it to run. My ultimate goal is to get it to run alongside Mezzanine, but I can't even get it to run on its own.

Here's what I've done:

(As a precondition to the following steps, I have the following C/C++ compiler installed to support pip. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266. The batch file vcvarsall.bat is on the path environment variable.)

  1. Perform a fresh install of python 2.78. I used the ActiveState distribution 64 bit.

  2. I then uninstall and reinstall virtualenv because of a bug as per these instructions (https://askubuntu.com/questions/400343/trying-to-create-a-python-virtual-environment-but-getting-oserror)

  3. Next I activate the new environment env\Scripts\activate.bat

  4. Next install lbform with pip install lbforum which fails because of "PIL" so I install that by itself. pip install PIL --allow-unverified PIL --allow-all-external per Installing PIL with pip.

  5. Then install lbform with pip install lbforum which seems to work fine as it reports success

  6. Next I use the standard django commands for creating a site and adding a project.

  7. I update the urls.py and the settings file for the site per the instructions found here: https://github.com/vicalloy/LBForum. Leaving off step 7.

When I run the app I see the following errors:

RuntimeError: South does not support Django 1.7 or higher. Please use native Django migrations.

I get different errors when running along Mezzanine but I'll create a different question for that once I know how to get this to run stand along in its own virtualenv.

Update: I've made some progress on this by removing south from INSTALLED_APPS. After doing so I was able to run .\manage.py migrate successfully. However I know see other errors:

File "c:\Users\cmedcoff\envlbf\lib\site-packages\attachments\urls.py" in <module>
    1. from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url

    Exception Type: ImportError at /
    Exception Value: No module named defaults

Apparently the package django-lb-attachments (0.8.3) is looking for the package/module "django.conf.urls.defaults" which does not exists in version Django (1.7.7)? So I guess lbforum docs suggest that Django 1.3+ is supported but this is not the case for 1.7.7 without import edits?

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The problem when you install lbforum which in pypi last update was on 2011. The project has set the Django dependency as Django>=1.3, so it will install Django 1.7 :S. Similar thing happends with PIL, you should install Pillow instead of PIL.

Also this project seems to be incompatible with Django 1.5 and has some out dated deps I think you need to follow this steps (I tried them on linux)

pip install Django==1.3

However I will recommend to use the latest version of Django.

you can try to install dev version with this command (you will need git), but it seems to be not compatible with Django 1.5

pip install git+https://github.com/vicalloy/LBForum

Tehere is a fork which it seems to be compatible with Django 1.5+, but I didn't have time to check it.

pip install git+https://github.com/bjinwright/LBForum

check it here

For installing Pillow instead of PIL

pip uninstall PIL
pip install Pillow
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