I want to connect MySQL database to my django project, but it is throwing an error :
"django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting USE_I18N, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings."
Trace:
(myenv) LIBINGLADWINs-MacBook-Air:libinrenold$ django-admin dbshell
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/libinrenold/Desktop/djangoworks/myenv/bin/django-admin", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(execute_from_command_line())
File "/Users/libinrenold/Desktop/djangoworks/myenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 364, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/Users/libinrenold/Desktop/djangoworks/myenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 356, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/Users/libinrenold/Desktop/djangoworks/myenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 283, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
File "/Users/libinrenold/Desktop/djangoworks/myenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 322, in execute
saved_locale = translation.get_language()
File "/Users/libinrenold/Desktop/djangoworks/myenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/utils/translation/__init__.py", line 195, in get_language
return _trans.get_language()
File "/Users/libinrenold/Desktop/djangoworks/myenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/utils/translation/__init__.py", line 59, in __getattr__
if settings.USE_I18N:
File "/Users/libinrenold/Desktop/djangoworks/myenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 56, in __getattr__
self._setup(name)
File "/Users/libinrenold/Desktop/djangoworks/myenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 39, in _setup
% (desc, ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE))
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting USE_I18N, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.
settings.py.
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
'NAME': 'test',
'USER': 'user',
'PASSWORD': 'root',
'HOST':'',
'PORT': '',
}
}
You must define the relevant variable to show where your settings.py
file lives:
export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mysite.settings
This is the relevant docs entry:
When you use Django, you have to tell it which settings you’re using. Do this by using an environment variable, DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE.
The value of DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE should be in Python path syntax, e.g. mysite.settings. Note that the settings module should be on the Python import search path.
If you are using a virtualenv (which is the best practice), you can paste the relevant export
command in the file <path-to-virtualenv>/bin/activate
It happens to me too, I just now found unintentional.
I changed "configuration" in top of PyCharm IDE so pycharm confused when try to run django code. Exactly the problem popup when I try to run server with shortcut but when I used terminal to run server, I found django code not having any problem and pycharm can't found setting.
So please check "configuration" in top pycharm's ide maybe you do same mistake :)
I'm new in django so be calm if my answer was silly.
I had this problem because I tried to import a django script after just typing
python
instead of
python manage.py shell
Duh!
put this in top of settings.py this will configure django for you
import os
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", __file__)
import django
django.setup()
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