error message on runserver locally

[Phil]

Hi,

I had django setup and working for over a year now working with it on and off. I was away for a month, came back and now whenever I run "django-admin.py runserver 8080" I get the following error...

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

I can import django from command line(version 1.4.3), I ran "django-admin.py startproject test" to try a new project. It has "os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "test.settings")" declared in "manage.py" in the root and in "test/test/wsgi.py" it's also declared so how is my DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE undefined?

[Xavier Ordoquy]

Hi Phil,

test is a python module. Your project name conflicts with it.
You should use another name for your project.

Regards,
Xavier Ordoquy,
Linovia.

[Phil]

Hi Xavier, I tried a project called "boom" too and same message, plus my other 3 django projects I had working previously all get the same error now.

[Xavier Ordoquy]

Have you tried to start them with the manage.py runserver instead of django-admin ?

Regards,

Xavier Ordoquy,

Linovia.

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[Phil Brant]

I tried "manage.py runserver 8080" there just get "command not found". I've never done it that way in the past but doesn't work either.

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[Xavier Ordoquy]

Sorry I should have been more explicit. You need to call the manage.py through the python interpreter: "python manage.py runserver" because your local directory isn't in your paths.

Regards,

Xavier Ordoquy,

Linovia.

[Phil Brant]

Running that in python interpreter just throws an error "Invalid Syntax"

[Xavier Ordoquy]

Le 15 déc. 2012 à 16:37, Phil Brant <phi...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Running that in python interpreter just throws an error "Invalid Syntax"

Without stacktrace, there isn't much we can do.
There might be something wrong in your settings file.

Regards,
Xavier Ordoquy,
Linovia.

[Ramiro Morales]

Hace you by chance actually upgraded Django todo 1.4.x from aún older versión? Are you using Mac OS X?

[Phil Brant]

OK, thanks for your help anyway.

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[Dev]

Run from command line:

"python manage.py runserver"

Also i guess you are getting an import error because your 'path environment variable' doesn't contain the path of the directory of your project.

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[Bill Freeman]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Phil <phi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I had django setup and working for over a year now working with it on and off. I was away for a month, came back and now whenever I run "django-admin.py runserver 8080" I get the following error...

Maybe there's a way to do this, but the only thing that I use django-admin.py for is startproject.  I haven't  found any suggestion to use it for anything else in the documents.  All other operations, like syncdb, runserver, I do by cd'ing into the project root (directory containing manage.py) and running "python manage.py runserver 8080", for example.  The cd part is important, because python adds the current directory to sys.path (if it's not already there), and it needs to be there to import settings, among other things.  (Running under WSGI, for example, you will need to add this directory yourself.)

Bill

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

I can import django from command line(version 1.4.3), I ran "django-admin.py startproject test" to try a new project. It has "os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "test.settings")" declared in "manage.py" in the root and in "test/test/wsgi.py" it's also declared so how is my DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE undefined?

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[Phil Brant]

ah that worked. I have apache on port 80 so I didn't see my django site, so I just tried a different port and all my django sites work on the new port now. I always used port 8080 before I wonder why it doesn't work anymore. Anyway working again, thanks a million devan!