(keyError: 'CELERY_BROKER_URL')

Question

File "C:\Users\User\path\lib\site-packages\environ\environ.py", line 277, in get_value
raise ImproperlyConfigured(error_msg)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Set the CELERY_BROKER_URL environment variable

I'm getting this error when I execute the python manage.py command.

I already installed cookiecutter with its requirements but I don't know where to go from there.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

When you create user project with cookiecutter, you must set every required settings. In this case, it is celery.

What is celery?

If you don't want to use celery, I recommend you to recreate your project. Then type n when cookiecutter ask to use celery.

If you want to use celery, see this tutorial First step with Django.

I give you some advise. cookiecutter is powerful tool to create project simply. But if you are not familiar with django and other libraries, the cookiecutter could confuse you. So I recommend you not to use the cookiecutter. Instead, look at this tutorial and proceed step by step.