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@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ these settings to match your database's connection parameters:
empty string if your database server is on the same physical machine
(localhost).
+(Make sure you've created a database within PostgreSQL or MySQL by this point.
+Do that with "``CREATE DATABASE database_name;``" within your database's
+interactive prompt.)
+
Once you've done that, you need to tell Django which settings module you're
currently using. Do that by setting an environment variable,
``DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE``::