django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting INSTALLED_APPS, but settings are not configured. plz help me out plz

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 … Read more