Consistently getting ImportError: Could not import settings 'myapp.settings' error

Question

There appears to be a number of potential solutions to this problem but nothing seems to work for me.

Running python manage.py runserver is fine but I get t

Answer 1

Try:

export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/folder/with/manage.py:$PYTHONPATH

It seems like it is a path problem. the path from where you call manage.py is usually added to PYTHONPATH, if you call django-admin.py it is not. Your application therefore does not find the ram module. You need to add the folder where your manage.py resides to PYTHONPATH

EDIT

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting DEBUG, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

Means you have to tell django, which settings. So enter the following line

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='ram.settings'

or start django-admin the following way

django-admin.py runserver --settings='ram.settings'

(With the changed pythonpath, of course)