Question

I’ve a Django project which runs in virtual environment.
Also there is line export ENV=staging in .bashrc file.
And in settings I try to read this using os.getenv('ENV') but it returns None.

settings_staging.py

...
ENV = os.getenv('ENV')
...

.bashrc

...
export ENV=staging
...

Error

[dev.gipi] out:   File "/home/ubuntu/projects/deeyoon/settings/settings.py", line 61, in <module>
[dev.gipi] out:     raise Exception('Environment variable ENV is requried!')
[dev.gipi] out: Exception: Environment variable ENV is requried!

What may cause the problem or what is goin wrong with?

Sultan.

Answer 1

Common problem is that .bashrc file is never executed. Type env and check if ENV variable is there.