Seems like you didn’t define DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
which results in undefined settings. INSTALLED_APPS
at this point is the first setting that Django wants to look up, resulting in the given error.
With a default project creation the created manage.py
defines said environment variable and if you run python manage.py runserver
the settings are defined.
Also see the according docs.
However since with your setup these settings aren’t defined: Set an environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
pointing to your settings.py
. Also see the docs for this.