Hello, I was following the Django deployment tutorial (https://docs.digitalocean.com/tutorials/app-deploy-django-app/) and it says to set the enviroment variables to distinguish between dev and prod enviroment and to save the database settings, I have done that but when I run the building I get this error
Exception: DATABASE_URL environment variable not defined
How can I fix that?
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The
DATABASE_URL
bind variables are not available during build time. You have a couple options:Hope this helps!
In the envs in the app spec the variable is defined as this
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