错误：无法导入设置“设置”（在sys.path上吗？是否存在语法错误？）：没有名为设置的模块

Question

I am working a django project which uses django version 1.2.2. I am trying to runserver using manage.py or django-admin.py, but I am getting the error

Error: Could not import settings 'settings' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named settings

The settings.py file is exists in the same directory where manage.py and wsgi.py exists. I tried it by passing the settings as an argument also

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

but still i get the same error that

Error: Can't find the file 'settings.py' in the directory
containing 'manage.py'. It appears you've customized things.
You'll have
to run django-admin.py, passing it your settings module.
(If the
file settings.py does indeed exist, it's causing an ImportError
somehow.

I am using django 1.2 first time. Help will be appriciated

Answer 1

Try to set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable properly

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings

or run django-admin as follow

django-admin.py runserver --settings=settings

Answer 2

why don't you run

./manage.py runserver