Connecting Django web app database to postgresql on Pythonanywhere
<p>I want to connect my Django web app database to my postgresql database I have on my Pythonanywhere paid account. Before coding anything, I just wanted to get everything talking to each other. This is the settings.py DATABASE section from my django app. I'm running Python 3.5 and Django 1.9.</p>

<pre><code>DATABASES = {
'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
    'NAME': '[myDatabaseName]',
    'USER': '[myUsername]',
    'PASSWORD': '[myPassword]',
    'HOST': 'xxxxxxxx-xxx.postgres.pythonanywhere-services.com',
    'PORT': '10130',
    }
}
</code></pre>

<p>The HOST and PORT we're both provided from the pythonanywhere.com site under the tab DATABASE and Postgres. I did create my database, username, and password on the postgres console.</p>

<p>I then created a checkedb.py script I found that would check if the connection with the postgres database works.</p>

<pre><code>from django.db import connections
db_conn = connections['default']
try:
    c = db_conn.cursor()
except OperationalError:
    connected = False
else:
    connected = True
</code></pre>

<p>This is the error I receive after running this code.</p>

<pre><code>    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 38, in _setup
    settings_module = os.environ[ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/os.py", line 633, in __getitem__
    raise KeyError(key) from None
KeyError: 'DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/giraldez/golf/golf/dbcheck.py", line 2, in &lt;module&gt;
    db_conn = connections['default']
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 196, in __getitem__
    self.ensure_defaults(alias)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 170, in ensure_defaults
    conn = self.databases[alias]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 49, in __get__
    res = instance.__dict__[self.func.__name__] = self.func(instance)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 153, in databases
    self._databases = settings.DATABASES
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 54, in __getattr__
    self._setup(name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 47, in _setup
    % (desc, ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE))
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting DATABASES, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable D
JANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.
</code></pre>

<p>The directory for my project looks like this</p>

<pre><code>golf/
---golf/
------__init.py__
------dbcheck.py
------settings.py
------urls.py
------wsgi.py
---media/
---static/
---manage.py
</code></pre>