Example disco Django Postgres Site See the documentation here how to run locally first time make a copy of the .env.example file and call the copy .env fill out the DJANGO_SECRET_KEY value in .env with a random secret-ish string setup a local postgres database and point to it in .env on macs, we suggest using Postgres.app you can also use Postico to manage your local databases the DATABASE_URL value in .env should look like postgresql://USER@localhost:5432/SOMEDB where USER is your username on your local computer and SOMEDB is the name of the database you created. then, run: python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt python manage.py migrate every time source venv/bin/activate python manage.py runserver