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yayu
Asked: 2012-04-14 17:35:34 +0800 CST

Django environment variable undefined

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On running Django, I frequently get the following error:

ImportError: Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.

How do I set the environment variables correctly? I tried the solution here but did not have any success.

11.10 django

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  1. Best Answer

    You can set an environment variable with a command like:

    export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=application.settings

    Assuming that application.settings is in Python's path, you should then be able to run django-admin using those settings. Alternatively, you can pass a settings module to django-admin on the command line:

    django-admin --settings=application.settings ...
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