System check framework

The system check framework is a set of static checks for validating Django projects. It detects common problems and provides hints for how to fix them. The framework is extensible so you can easily add your own checks.

For details on how to add your own checks and integrate them with Django’s system checks, see the System check topic guide.

API reference

CheckMessage

class CheckMessage(level, msg, hint=None, obj=None, id=None)

The warnings and errors raised by system checks must be instances of CheckMessage. An instance encapsulates a single reportable error or warning. It also provides context and hints applicable to the message, and a unique identifier that is used for filtering purposes.

Constructor arguments are:

level

The severity of the message. Use one of the predefined values: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL. If the level is greater or equal to ERROR, then Django will prevent management commands from executing. Messages with level lower than ERROR (i.e. warnings) are reported to the console, but can be silenced.

msg

A short (less than 80 characters) string describing the problem. The string should not contain newlines.

hint

A single-line string providing a hint for fixing the problem. If no hint can be provided, or the hint is self-evident from the error message, the hint can be omitted, or a value of None can be used.

obj

Optional. An object providing context for the message (for example, the model where the problem was discovered). The object should be a model, field, or manager or any other object that defines a __str__() method. The method is used while reporting all messages and its result precedes the message.

id

Optional string. A unique identifier for the issue. Identifiers should follow the pattern applabel.X001, where X is one of the letters CEWID, indicating the message severity (C for criticals, E for errors and so). The number can be allocated by the application, but should be unique within that application.

There are subclasses to make creating messages with common levels easier. When using them you can omit the level argument because it is implied by the class name.

class Debug(msg, hint=None, obj=None, id=None)

class Info(msg, hint=None, obj=None, id=None)

class Warning(msg, hint=None obj=None, id=None)

class Error(msg, hint=None, obj=None, id=None)

class Critical(msg, hint=None, obj=None, id=None)

Builtin tags

Django’s system checks are organized using the following tags:

• admin: Checks of any admin site declarations.
• async_support: Checks asynchronous-related configuration.
• caches: Checks cache related configuration.
• compatibility: Flags potential problems with version upgrades.
• database: Checks database-related configuration issues. Database checks are not run by default because they do more than static code analysis as regular checks do. They are only run by the migrate command or if you specify configured database aliases using the --database option when calling the check command.
• files: Checks files related configuration.
• models: Checks of model, field, and manager definitions.
• security: Checks security related configuration.
• signals: Checks on signal declarations and handler registrations.
• sites: Checks django.contrib.sites configuration.
• staticfiles: Checks django.contrib.staticfiles configuration.
• templates: Checks template related configuration.
• translation: Checks translation related configuration.
• urls: Checks URL configuration.

Some checks may be registered with multiple tags.

Core system checks

Asynchronous support

The following checks verify your setup for Asynchronous support:

• async.E001: You should not set the DJANGO_ALLOW_ASYNC_UNSAFE environment variable in deployment. This disables async safety protection.

Backwards compatibility

Compatibility checks warn of potential problems that might occur after upgrading Django.

• 2_0.W001: Your URL pattern <pattern> has a route that contains (?P<, begins with a ^, or ends with a $. This was likely an oversight when migrating from url() to path().
• 4_0.E001: As of Django 4.0, the values in the CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS setting must start with a scheme (usually http:// or https://) but found <hostname>.

Caches

The following checks verify that your CACHES setting is correctly configured:

• caches.E001: You must define a 'default' cache in your CACHES setting.
• caches.W002: Your <cache> configuration might expose your cache or lead to corruption of your data because its LOCATION matches/is inside/contains MEDIA_ROOT/STATIC_ROOT/STATICFILES_DIRS.
• caches.W003: Your <cache> cache LOCATION is relative. Use an absolute path instead.

Database

MySQL and MariaDB

If you’re using MySQL or MariaDB, the following checks will be performed:

• mysql.E001: MySQL/MariaDB does not allow unique CharFields to have a max_length > 255. This check was changed to mysql.W003 in Django 3.1 as the real maximum size depends on many factors.
• mysql.W002: MySQL/MariaDB Strict Mode is not set for database connection <alias>. See also Setting sql_mode.
• mysql.W003: MySQL/MariaDB may not allow unique CharFields to have a max_length > 255.

Managing files

The following checks verify your setup for Managing files:

• files.E001: The FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR setting refers to the nonexistent directory <path>.

Model fields

• fields.E001: Field names must not end with an underscore.
• fields.E002: Field names must not contain "__".
• fields.E003: pk is a reserved word that cannot be used as a field name.
• fields.E004: choices must be a mapping (e.g. a dictionary) or an iterable (e.g. a list or tuple).
• fields.E005: choices must be a mapping of actual values to human readable names or an iterable containing (actual value, human readable name) tuples.
• fields.E006: db_index must be None, True or False.
• fields.E007: Primary keys must not have null=True.
• fields.E008: All validators must be callable.
• fields.E009: max_length is too small to fit the longest value in choices (<count> characters).
• fields.E010: <field> default should be a callable instead of an instance so that it’s not shared between all field instances.
• fields.E011: <database> does not support default database values with expressions (db_default).
• fields.E012: <expression> cannot be used in db_default.
• fields.E100: AutoFields must set primary_key=True.
• fields.E110: BooleanFields do not accept null values. This check appeared before support for null values was added in Django 2.1.
• fields.E120: CharFields must define a max_length attribute.
• fields.E121: max_length must be a positive integer.
• fields.W122: max_length is ignored when used with <integer field type>.
• fields.E130: DecimalFields must define a decimal_places attribute.
• fields.E131: decimal_places must be a non-negative integer.
• fields.E132: DecimalFields must define a max_digits attribute.
• fields.E133: max_digits must be a positive integer.
• fields.E134: max_digits must be greater or equal to decimal_places.
• fields.E140: FilePathFields must have either allow_files or allow_folders set to True.
• fields.E150: GenericIPAddressFields cannot have blank=True if null=False, as blank values are stored as nulls.
• fields.E160: The options auto_now, auto_now_add, and default are mutually exclusive. Only one of these options may be present.
• fields.W161: Fixed default value provided.
• fields.W162: <database> does not support a database index on <field data type> columns.
• fields.W163: <database> does not support comments on columns (db_comment).
• fields.E170: BinaryField’s default cannot be a string. Use bytes content instead.
• fields.E180: <database> does not support JSONFields.
• fields.E190: <database> does not support a database collation on <field_type>s.
• fields.E220: <database> does not support GeneratedFields.
• fields.E221: <database> does not support non-persisted GeneratedFields.
• fields.E222: <database> does not support persisted GeneratedFields.
• fields.E223: GeneratedField.output_field has errors: …
• fields.W224: GeneratedField.output_field has warnings: …
• fields.E900: IPAddressField has been removed except for support in historical migrations.
• fields.W900: IPAddressField has been deprecated. Support for it (except in historical migrations) will be removed in Django 1.9. This check appeared in Django 1.7 and 1.8.
• fields.W901: CommaSeparatedIntegerField has been deprecated. Support for it (except in historical migrations) will be removed in Django 2.0. This check appeared in Django 1.10 and 1.11.
• fields.E901: CommaSeparatedIntegerField is removed except for support in historical migrations.
• fields.W902: FloatRangeField is deprecated and will be removed in Django 3.1. This check appeared in Django 2.2 and 3.0.
• fields.W903: NullBooleanField is deprecated. Support for it (except in historical migrations) will be removed in Django 4.0. This check appeared in Django 3.1 and 3.2.
• fields.E903: NullBooleanField is removed except for support in historical migrations.
• fields.W904: django.contrib.postgres.fields.JSONField is deprecated. Support for it (except in historical migrations) will be removed in Django 4.0. This check appeared in Django 3.1 and 3.2.
• fields.E904: django.contrib.postgres.fields.JSONField is removed except for support in historical migrations.
• fields.W905: django.contrib.postgres.fields.CICharField is deprecated. Support for it (except in historical migrations) will be removed in Django 5.1.
• fields.W906: django.contrib.postgres.fields.CIEmailField is deprecated. Support for it (except in historical migrations) will be removed in Django 5.1.
• fields.W907: django.contrib.postgres.fields.CITextField is deprecated. Support for it (except in historical migrations) will be removed in Django 5.1.

File fields

• fields.E200: unique is not a valid argument for a FileField. This check is removed in Django 1.11.
• fields.E201: primary_key is not a valid argument for a FileField.
• fields.E202: FileField’s upload_to argument must be a relative path, not an absolute path.
• fields.E210: Cannot use ImageField because Pillow is not installed.

Related fields

• fields.E300: Field defines a relation with model <model>, which is either not installed, or is abstract.
• fields.E301: Field defines a relation with the model <app_label>.<model> which has been swapped out.
• fields.E302: Reverse accessor <related model>.<accessor name> for <app_label>.<model>.<field name> clashes with field name <app_label>.<model>.<field name>.
• fields.E303: Reverse query name for <app_label>.<model>.<field name> clashes with field name <app_label>.<model>.<field name>.
• fields.E304: Reverse accessor <related model>.<accessor name> for <app_label>.<model>.<field name> clashes with reverse accessor for <app_label>.<model>.<field name>.
• fields.E305: Reverse query name for <app_label>.<model>.<field name> clashes with reverse query name for <app_label>.<model>.<field name>.
• fields.E306: The name <name> is invalid related_name for field <model>.<field name>.
• fields.E307: The field <app label>.<model>.<field name> was declared with a lazy reference to <app label>.<model>, but app <app label> isn’t installed or doesn’t provide model <model>.
• fields.E308: Reverse query name <related query name> must not end with an underscore.
• fields.E309: Reverse query name <related query name> must not contain '__'.
• fields.E310: No subset of the fields <field1>, <field2>, … on model <model> is unique.
• fields.E311: <model>.<field name> must be unique because it is referenced by a ForeignKey.
• fields.E312: The to_field <field name> doesn’t exist on the related model <app label>.<model>.
• fields.E320: Field specifies on_delete=SET_NULL, but cannot be null.
• fields.E321: The field specifies on_delete=SET_DEFAULT, but has no default value.
• fields.E330: ManyToManyFields cannot be unique.
• fields.E331: Field specifies a many-to-many relation through model <model>, which has not been installed.
• fields.E332: Many-to-many fields with intermediate tables must not be symmetrical. This check appeared before Django 3.0.
• fields.E333: The model is used as an intermediate model by <model>, but it has more than two foreign keys to <model>, which is ambiguous. You must specify which two foreign keys Django should use via the through_fields keyword argument.
• fields.E334: The model is used as an intermediate model by <model>, but it has more than one foreign key from <model>, which is ambiguous. You must specify which foreign key Django should use via the through_fields keyword argument.
• fields.E335: The model is used as an intermediate model by <model>, but it has more than one foreign key to <model>, which is ambiguous. You must specify which foreign key Django should use via the through_fields keyword argument.
• fields.E336: The model is used as an intermediary model by <model>, but it does not have foreign key to <model> or <model>.
• fields.E337: Field specifies through_fields but does not provide the names of the two link fields that should be used for the relation through <model>.
• fields.E338: The intermediary model <through model> has no field <field name>.
• fields.E339: <model>.<field name> is not a foreign key to <model>.
• fields.E340: The field’s intermediary table <table name> clashes with the table name of <model>/<model>.<field name>.
• fields.W340: null has no effect on ManyToManyField.
• fields.W341: ManyToManyField does not support validators.
• fields.W342: Setting unique=True on a ForeignKey has the same effect as using a OneToOneField.
• fields.W343: limit_choices_to has no effect on ManyToManyField with a through model. This check appeared before Django 4.0.
• fields.W344: The field’s intermediary table <table name> clashes with the table name of <model>/<model>.<field name>.
• fields.W345: related_name has no effect on ManyToManyField with a symmetrical relationship, e.g. to “self”.
• fields.W346: db_comment has no effect on ManyToManyField.

Models

• models.E001: <swappable> is not of the form app_label.app_name.
• models.E002: <SETTING> references <model>, which has not been installed, or is abstract.
• models.E003: The model has two identical many-to-many relations through the intermediate model <app_label>.<model>.
• models.E004: id can only be used as a field name if the field also sets primary_key=True.
• models.E005: The field <field name> from parent model <model> clashes with the field <field name> from parent model <model>.
• models.E006: The field <field name> clashes with the field <field name> from model <model>.
• models.E007: Field <field name> has column name <column name> that is used by another field.
• models.E008: index_together must be a list or tuple.
• models.E009: All index_together elements must be lists or tuples.
• models.E010: unique_together must be a list or tuple.
• models.E011: All unique_together elements must be lists or tuples.
• models.E012: constraints/indexes/index_together/unique_together refers to the nonexistent field <field name>.
• models.E013: constraints/indexes/index_together/unique_together refers to a ManyToManyField <field name>, but ManyToManyFields are not supported for that option.
• models.E014: ordering must be a tuple or list (even if you want to order by only one field).
• models.E015: ordering refers to the nonexistent field, related field, or lookup <field name>.
• models.E016: constraints/indexes/index_together/unique_together refers to field <field_name> which is not local to model <model>.
• models.E017: Proxy model <model> contains model fields.
• models.E018: Autogenerated column name too long for field <field>. Maximum length is <maximum length> for database <alias>.
• models.E019: Autogenerated column name too long for M2M field <M2M field>. Maximum length is <maximum length> for database <alias>.
• models.E020: The <model>.check() class method is currently overridden.
• models.E021: ordering and order_with_respect_to cannot be used together.
• models.E022: <function> contains a lazy reference to <app label>.<model>, but app <app label> isn’t installed or doesn’t provide model <model>.
• models.E023: The model name <model> cannot start or end with an underscore as it collides with the query lookup syntax.
• models.E024: The model name <model> cannot contain double underscores as it collides with the query lookup syntax.
• models.E025: The property <property name> clashes with a related field accessor.
• models.E026: The model cannot have more than one field with primary_key=True.
• models.W027: <database> does not support check constraints.
• models.E028: db_table <db_table> is used by multiple models: <model list>.
• models.E029: index name <index> is not unique for model <model>.
• models.E030: index name <index> is not unique among models: <model list>.
• models.E031: constraint name <constraint> is not unique for model <model>.
• models.E032: constraint name <constraint> is not unique among models: <model list>.
• models.E033: The index name <index> cannot start with an underscore or a number.
• models.E034: The index name <index> cannot be longer than <max_length> characters.
• models.W035: db_table <db_table> is used by multiple models: <model list>.
• models.W036: <database> does not support unique constraints with conditions.
• models.W037: <database> does not support indexes with conditions.
• models.W038: <database> does not support deferrable unique constraints.
• models.W039: <database> does not support unique constraints with non-key columns.
• models.W040: <database> does not support indexes with non-key columns.
• models.E041: constraints refers to the joined field <field name>.
• models.W042: Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default django.db.models.AutoField.
• models.W043: <database> does not support indexes on expressions.
• models.W044: <database> does not support unique constraints on expressions.
• models.W045: Check constraint <constraint> contains RawSQL() expression and won’t be validated during the model full_clean().
• models.W046: <database> does not support comments on tables (db_table_comment).
• models.W047: <database> does not support unique constraints with nulls distinct.

Security

The security checks do not make your site secure. They do not audit code, do intrusion detection, or do anything particularly complex. Rather, they help perform an automated, low-hanging-fruit checklist, that can help you to improve your site’s security.

Some of these checks may not be appropriate for your particular deployment configuration. For instance, if you do your HTTP to HTTPS redirection in a load balancer, it’d be irritating to be constantly warned about not having enabled SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT. Use SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS to silence unneeded checks.

The following checks are run if you use the check --deploy option:

• security.W001: You do not have django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware in your MIDDLEWARE so the SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS, SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF, SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY, SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY, and SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT settings will have no effect.
• security.W002: You do not have django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware in your MIDDLEWARE, so your pages will not be served with an 'x-frame-options' header. Unless there is a good reason for your site to be served in a frame, you should consider enabling this header to help prevent clickjacking attacks.
• security.W003: You don’t appear to be using Django’s built-in cross-site request forgery protection via the middleware (django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware is not in your MIDDLEWARE). Enabling the middleware is the safest approach to ensure you don’t leave any holes.
• security.W004: You have not set a value for the SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS setting. If your entire site is served only over SSL, you may want to consider setting a value and enabling HTTP Strict Transport Security. Be sure to read the documentation first; enabling HSTS carelessly can cause serious, irreversible problems.
• security.W005: You have not set the SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS setting to True. Without this, your site is potentially vulnerable to attack via an insecure connection to a subdomain. Only set this to True if you are certain that all subdomains of your domain should be served exclusively via SSL.
• security.W006: Your SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF setting is not set to True, so your pages will not be served with an 'X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff' header. You should consider enabling this header to prevent the browser from identifying content types incorrectly.
• security.W007: Your SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER setting is not set to True, so your pages will not be served with an 'X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block' header. You should consider enabling this header to activate the browser’s XSS filtering and help prevent XSS attacks. This check is removed in Django 3.0 as the X-XSS-Protection header is no longer honored by modern browsers.
• security.W008: Your SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT setting is not set to True. Unless your site should be available over both SSL and non-SSL connections, you may want to either set this setting to True or configure a load balancer or reverse-proxy server to redirect all connections to HTTPS.
• security.W009: Your SECRET_KEY has less than 50 characters, less than 5 unique characters, or it’s prefixed with 'django-insecure-' indicating that it was generated automatically by Django. Please generate a long and random value, otherwise many of Django’s security-critical features will be vulnerable to attack.
• security.W010: You have django.contrib.sessions in your INSTALLED_APPS but you have not set SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE to True. Using a secure-only session cookie makes it more difficult for network traffic sniffers to hijack user sessions.
• security.W011: You have django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware in your MIDDLEWARE, but you have not set SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE to True. Using a secure-only session cookie makes it more difficult for network traffic sniffers to hijack user sessions.
• security.W012: SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE is not set to True. Using a secure-only session cookie makes it more difficult for network traffic sniffers to hijack user sessions.
• security.W013: You have django.contrib.sessions in your INSTALLED_APPS, but you have not set SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY to True. Using an HttpOnly session cookie makes it more difficult for cross-site scripting attacks to hijack user sessions.
• security.W014: You have django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware in your MIDDLEWARE, but you have not set SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY to True. Using an HttpOnly session cookie makes it more difficult for cross-site scripting attacks to hijack user sessions.
• security.W015: SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY is not set to True. Using an HttpOnly session cookie makes it more difficult for cross-site scripting attacks to hijack user sessions.
• security.W016: CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE is not set to True. Using a secure-only CSRF cookie makes it more difficult for network traffic sniffers to steal the CSRF token.
• security.W017: CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY is not set to True. Using an HttpOnly CSRF cookie makes it more difficult for cross-site scripting attacks to steal the CSRF token. This check is removed in Django 1.11 as the CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY setting offers no practical benefit.
• security.W018: You should not have DEBUG set to True in deployment.
• security.W019: You have django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware in your MIDDLEWARE, but X_FRAME_OPTIONS is not set to 'DENY'. Unless there is a good reason for your site to serve other parts of itself in a frame, you should change it to 'DENY'.
• security.W020: ALLOWED_HOSTS must not be empty in deployment.
• security.W021: You have not set the SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD setting to True. Without this, your site cannot be submitted to the browser preload list.
• security.W022: You have not set the SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY setting. Without this, your site will not send a Referrer-Policy header. You should consider enabling this header to protect user privacy.
• security.E023: You have set the SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY setting to an invalid value.
• security.E024: You have set the SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY setting to an invalid value.
• security.W025: Your SECRET_KEY_FALLBACKS[n] has less than 50 characters, less than 5 unique characters, or it’s prefixed with 'django-insecure-' indicating that it was generated automatically by Django. Please generate a long and random value, otherwise many of Django’s security-critical features will be vulnerable to attack.

The following checks verify that your security-related settings are correctly configured:

• security.E100: DEFAULT_HASHING_ALGORITHM must be 'sha1' or 'sha256'. This check appeared in Django 3.1 and 3.2.
• security.E101: The CSRF failure view 'path.to.view' does not take the correct number of arguments.
• security.E102: The CSRF failure view 'path.to.view' could not be imported.

Signals

• signals.E001: <handler> was connected to the <signal> signal with a lazy reference to the sender <app label>.<model>, but app <app label> isn’t installed or doesn’t provide model <model>.

Templates

The following checks verify that your TEMPLATES setting is correctly configured:

• templates.E001: You have 'APP_DIRS': True in your TEMPLATES but also specify 'loaders' in OPTIONS. Either remove APP_DIRS or remove the 'loaders' option.
• templates.E002: string_if_invalid in TEMPLATES OPTIONS must be a string but got: {value} ({type}).
• templates.E003:<name> is used for multiple template tag modules: <module list>. This check was changed to templates.W003 in Django 4.1.2.
• templates.W003:<name> is used for multiple template tag modules: <module list>.

Translation

The following checks are performed on your translation configuration:

• translation.E001: You have provided an invalid value for the LANGUAGE_CODE setting: <value>.
• translation.E002: You have provided an invalid language code in the LANGUAGES setting: <value>.
• translation.E003: You have provided an invalid language code in the LANGUAGES_BIDI setting: <value>.
• translation.E004: You have provided a value for the LANGUAGE_CODE setting that is not in the LANGUAGES setting.

URLs

The following checks are performed on your URL configuration:

• urls.W001: Your URL pattern <pattern> uses include() with a route ending with a $. Remove the dollar from the route to avoid problems including URLs.
• urls.W002: Your URL pattern <pattern> has a route beginning with a /. Remove this slash as it is unnecessary. If this pattern is targeted in an include(), ensure the include() pattern has a trailing /.
• urls.W003: Your URL pattern <pattern> has a name including a :. Remove the colon, to avoid ambiguous namespace references.
• urls.E004: Your URL pattern <pattern> is invalid. Ensure that urlpatterns is a list of path() and/or re_path() instances.
• urls.W005: URL namespace <namespace> isn’t unique. You may not be able to reverse all URLs in this namespace.
• urls.E006: The MEDIA_URL/ STATIC_URL setting must end with a slash.
• urls.E007: The custom handlerXXX view 'path.to.view' does not take the correct number of arguments (…).
• urls.E008: The custom handlerXXX view 'path.to.view' could not be imported.
• urls.E009: Your URL pattern <pattern> has an invalid view, pass <view>.as_view() instead of <view>.
• urls.W010: Your URL pattern <pattern> has an unmatched <angle bracket>.

contrib app checks

admin

Admin checks are all performed as part of the admin tag.

The following checks are performed on any ModelAdmin (or subclass) that is registered with the admin site:

• admin.E001: The value of raw_id_fields must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E002: The value of raw_id_fields[n] refers to <field name>, which is not a field of <model>.
• admin.E003: The value of raw_id_fields[n] must be a foreign key or a many-to-many field.
• admin.E004: The value of fields must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E005: Both fieldsets and fields are specified.
• admin.E006: The value of fields contains duplicate field(s).
• admin.E007: The value of fieldsets must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E008: The value of fieldsets[n] must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E009: The value of fieldsets[n] must be of length 2.
• admin.E010: The value of fieldsets[n][1] must be a dictionary.
• admin.E011: The value of fieldsets[n][1] must contain the key fields.
• admin.E012: There are duplicate field(s) in fieldsets[n][1].
• admin.E013: The value of fields[n]/filter_horizontal[n]/filter_vertical[n]/fieldsets[n][m] cannot include the ManyToManyField <field name>, because that field manually specifies a relationship model.
• admin.E014: The value of exclude must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E015: The value of exclude contains duplicate field(s).
• admin.E016: The value of form must inherit from BaseModelForm.
• admin.E017: The value of filter_vertical must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E018: The value of filter_horizontal must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E019: The value of filter_vertical[n]/filter_horizontal[n] refers to <field name>, which is not a field of <model>.
• admin.E020: The value of filter_vertical[n]/filter_horizontal[n] must be a many-to-many field.
• admin.E021: The value of radio_fields must be a dictionary.
• admin.E022: The value of radio_fields refers to <field name>, which is not a field of <model>.
• admin.E023: The value of radio_fields refers to <field name>, which is not an instance of ForeignKey, and does not have a choices definition.
• admin.E024: The value of radio_fields[<field name>] must be either admin.HORIZONTAL or admin.VERTICAL.
• admin.E025: The value of view_on_site must be either a callable or a boolean value.
• admin.E026: The value of prepopulated_fields must be a dictionary.
• admin.E027: The value of prepopulated_fields refers to <field name>, which is not a field of <model>.
• admin.E028: The value of prepopulated_fields refers to <field name>, which must not be a DateTimeField, a ForeignKey, a OneToOneField, or a ManyToManyField field.
• admin.E029: The value of prepopulated_fields[<field name>] must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E030: The value of prepopulated_fields refers to <field name>, which is not a field of <model>.
• admin.E031: The value of ordering must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E032: The value of ordering has the random ordering marker ?, but contains other fields as well.
• admin.E033: The value of ordering refers to <field name>, which is not a field of <model>.
• admin.E034: The value of readonly_fields must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E035: The value of readonly_fields[n] refers to <field_name>, which is not a callable, an attribute of <ModelAdmin class>, or an attribute of <model>.
• admin.E036: The value of autocomplete_fields must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E037: The value of autocomplete_fields[n] refers to <field name>, which is not a field of <model>.
• admin.E038: The value of autocomplete_fields[n] must be a foreign key or a many-to-many field.
• admin.E039: An admin for model <model> has to be registered to be referenced by <modeladmin>.autocomplete_fields.
• admin.E040: <modeladmin> must define search_fields, because it’s referenced by <other_modeladmin>.autocomplete_fields.

ModelAdmin

The following checks are performed on any ModelAdmin that is registered with the admin site:

• admin.E101: The value of save_as must be a boolean.
• admin.E102: The value of save_on_top must be a boolean.
• admin.E103: The value of inlines must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E104: <InlineModelAdmin class> must inherit from InlineModelAdmin.
• admin.E105: <InlineModelAdmin class> must have a model attribute.
• admin.E106: The value of <InlineModelAdmin class>.model must be a Model.
• admin.E107: The value of list_display must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E108: The value of list_display[n] refers to <label>, which is not a callable, an attribute of <ModelAdmin class>, or an attribute or method on <model>.
• admin.E109: The value of list_display[n] must not be a many-to-many field or a reverse foreign key.
• admin.E110: The value of list_display_links must be a list, a tuple, or None.
• admin.E111: The value of list_display_links[n] refers to <label>, which is not defined in list_display.
• admin.E112: The value of list_filter must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E113: The value of list_filter[n] must inherit from ListFilter.
• admin.E114: The value of list_filter[n] must not inherit from FieldListFilter.
• admin.E115: The value of list_filter[n][1] must inherit from FieldListFilter.
• admin.E116: The value of list_filter[n] refers to <label>, which does not refer to a Field.
• admin.E117: The value of list_select_related must be a boolean, tuple or list.
• admin.E118: The value of list_per_page must be an integer.
• admin.E119: The value of list_max_show_all must be an integer.
• admin.E120: The value of list_editable must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E121: The value of list_editable[n] refers to <label>, which is not a field of <model>.
• admin.E122: The value of list_editable[n] refers to <label>, which is not contained in list_display.
• admin.E123: The value of list_editable[n] cannot be in both list_editable and list_display_links.
• admin.E124: The value of list_editable[n] refers to the first field in list_display (<label>), which cannot be used unless list_display_links is set.
• admin.E125: The value of list_editable[n] refers to <field name>, which is not editable through the admin.
• admin.E126: The value of search_fields must be a list or tuple.
• admin.E127: The value of date_hierarchy refers to <field name>, which does not refer to a Field.
• admin.E128: The value of date_hierarchy must be a DateField or DateTimeField.
• admin.E129: <modeladmin> must define a has_<foo>_permission() method for the <action> action.
• admin.E130: __name__ attributes of actions defined in <modeladmin> must be unique. Name <name> is not unique.

InlineModelAdmin

The following checks are performed on any InlineModelAdmin that is registered as an inline on a ModelAdmin.

• admin.E201: Cannot exclude the field <field name>, because it is the foreign key to the parent model <app_label>.<model>.
• admin.E202: <model> has no ForeignKey to <parent model>./ <model> has more than one ForeignKey to <parent model>. You must specify a fk_name attribute.
• admin.E203: The value of extra must be an integer.
• admin.E204: The value of max_num must be an integer.
• admin.E205: The value of min_num must be an integer.
• admin.E206: The value of formset must inherit from BaseModelFormSet.

GenericInlineModelAdmin

The following checks are performed on any GenericInlineModelAdmin that is registered as an inline on a ModelAdmin.

• admin.E301: 'ct_field' references <label>, which is not a field on <model>.
• admin.E302: 'ct_fk_field' references <label>, which is not a field on <model>.
• admin.E303: <model> has no GenericForeignKey.
• admin.E304: <model> has no GenericForeignKey using content type field <field name> and object ID field <field name>.

AdminSite

The following checks are performed on the default AdminSite:

• admin.E401: django.contrib.contenttypes must be in INSTALLED_APPS in order to use the admin application.
• admin.E402: django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth must be enabled in DjangoTemplates (TEMPLATES) if using the default auth backend in order to use the admin application.
• admin.E403: A django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates instance must be configured in TEMPLATES in order to use the admin application.
• admin.E404: django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages must be enabled in DjangoTemplates (TEMPLATES) in order to use the admin application.
• admin.E405: django.contrib.auth must be in INSTALLED_APPS in order to use the admin application.
• admin.E406: django.contrib.messages must be in INSTALLED_APPS in order to use the admin application.
• admin.E408: django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware must be in MIDDLEWARE in order to use the admin application.
• admin.E409: django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware must be in MIDDLEWARE in order to use the admin application.
• admin.E410: django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware must be in MIDDLEWARE in order to use the admin application.
• admin.W411: django.template.context_processors.request must be enabled in DjangoTemplates (TEMPLATES) in order to use the admin navigation sidebar.

auth

• auth.E001: REQUIRED_FIELDS must be a list or tuple.
• auth.E002: The field named as the USERNAME_FIELD for a custom user model must not be included in REQUIRED_FIELDS.
• auth.E003: <field> must be unique because it is named as the USERNAME_FIELD.
• auth.W004: <field> is named as the USERNAME_FIELD, but it is not unique.
• auth.E005: The permission codenamed <codename> clashes with a builtin permission for model <model>.
• auth.E006: The permission codenamed <codename> is duplicated for model <model>.
• auth.E007: The verbose_name of model <model> must be at most 244 characters for its builtin permission names to be at most 255 characters.
• auth.E008: The permission named <name> of model <model> is longer than 255 characters.
• auth.C009: <User model>.is_anonymous must be an attribute or property rather than a method. Ignoring this is a security issue as anonymous users will be treated as authenticated!
• auth.C010: <User model>.is_authenticated must be an attribute or property rather than a method. Ignoring this is a security issue as anonymous users will be treated as authenticated!
• auth.E011: The name of model <model> must be at most 93 characters for its builtin permission names to be at most 100 characters.
• auth.E012: The permission codenamed <codename> of model <model> is longer than 100 characters.

contenttypes

The following checks are performed when a model contains a GenericForeignKey or GenericRelation:

• contenttypes.E001: The GenericForeignKey object ID references the nonexistent field <field>.
• contenttypes.E002: The GenericForeignKey content type references the nonexistent field <field>.
• contenttypes.E003: <field> is not a ForeignKey.
• contenttypes.E004: <field> is not a ForeignKey to contenttypes.ContentType.
• contenttypes.E005: Model names must be at most 100 characters.

postgres

The following checks are performed on django.contrib.postgres model fields:

• postgres.E001: Base field for array has errors: …
• postgres.E002: Base field for array cannot be a related field.
• postgres.E003: <field> default should be a callable instead of an instance so that it’s not shared between all field instances. This check was changed to fields.E010 in Django 3.1.
• postgres.W004: Base field for array has warnings: …

sites

The following checks are performed on any model using a CurrentSiteManager:

• sites.E001: CurrentSiteManager could not find a field named <field name>.
• sites.E002: CurrentSiteManager cannot use <field> as it is not a foreign key or a many-to-many field.

The following checks verify that django.contrib.sites is correctly configured:

• sites.E101: The SITE_ID setting must be an integer.

staticfiles

The following checks verify that django.contrib.staticfiles is correctly configured:

• staticfiles.E001: The STATICFILES_DIRS setting is not a tuple or list.
• staticfiles.E002: The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting.
• staticfiles.E003: The prefix <prefix> in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting must not end with a slash.
• staticfiles.W004: The directory <directory> in the STATICFILES_DIRS does not exist.
• staticfiles.E005: The STORAGES setting must define a staticfiles storage.