settings.DATABASES is improperly configured. Please supply the ENGINE value.

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured

Problem :

File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\dummy\base.py", line 15, in complain
raise ImproperlyConfigured("settings.DATABASES is improperly configured. "
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: settings.DATABASES is improperly configured. Please supply
the ENGINE value. Check settings documentation for more details.

Solution :

Either your declaration inside settings.py for the DATABASE is not properly declared, or manage.py cannot find settings.py.

If you use the old format of DATABASE_ENGINE, you need to change this :

DATABASE_ENGINE = 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2'      
DATABASE_NAME = 'mydatabase' 
DATABASE_USER = 'sarahr6'
DATABASE_PASSWORD = ''
DATABASE_HOST = ''
DATABASE_PORT = '' 

to this :

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'mydatabase',
        'USER': 'sarahr6',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': '',
        'PORT': ''
    }
}

Note: After you do your fix, you might need to re-install the module with $> sudo python setup.py install