South + Django 1.4 Database error

Question

I have just installed my Django project on a new system, and installed Django 1.4. However when I try to run manage.py runserver or manage.py syncdb I

Answer 1

For those using Heroku, which is my case. I found this problem too, I have the default database set, as they point out in the heroku guides:

DATABASES['default'] =  dj_database_url.config()

However, the ketError 'default' error still appears. This is due to there is no database provisioned, and thus dj_database_url cannot find it and raised that confusing error.

To solve it just provision the database and promote it as explained in heroku postgresql

heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev
heroku pg:promote HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_BLUE