I have a Cookiecutter Django project in which I'd like to add a "SiteSettings" model to control constants. My first instinct was to run manage.py startapp site. However I received the following message:
CommandError: 'site' conflicts with the name of an existing Python module and cannot be used as an app name. Please try another name.
Upon closer inspection, it appears that Cookiecutter already created a sites module within contrib, but with no models.py file. So I decided to make a models.py with the SiteSettings model in this directory.
However when I run makemigrations it says: No changes detected in app 'sites'
How can I add my desired model to this module and get migrations working for this module?
You will run into countless problems if you follow this path. Just use another name and do
manage.py startapp newname.