first is to fake the initial migration:
python manage.py migrate [yourapp] --fake 0001
then you can apply the migration to the db
python manage.py migrate [yourapp]
I'm assuming you ran convert_to_south
on development, in which case production still wouldn't be aware of the migrations yet. convert_to_south
automatically fakes the initial migration for you! If you were to just run migrate
on production without faking, it should error.