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Added an explanation of how to define the DATABASE_URL environment variable.

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@ -23,10 +23,17 @@ Then, create a PostgreSQL database with the following command, where `[repo_name
$ createdb [repo_name]
You can now run the usual Django ``migrate`` and ``runserver`` command::
`cookiecutter-django` uses the excellent `django-environ`_ package with its ``DATABASE_URL`` environment variable to simplify database configuration in your Django settings. Now all you have to do is compose a definition for ``DATABASE_URL``:
.. parsed-literal::
$ export DATABASE_URL="postgres://*<pg_user_name>*:*<pg_user_password>*\ @127.0.0.1:\ *<pg_port>*/*<pg_database_name>*"
.. _django-environ: http://django-environ.readthedocs.org
You can now run the usual Django ``migrate`` and ``runserver`` commands::
$ python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py runserver
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