django/postgresql setup - psycopq2.OperationalError

Question

I'm getting a 'psycopq2.OperationalError' when executing: python manage.py syncdb. The postgresql server seems to be up and running when tested with a djangostack script. Anyone run across this? Just going through the django tutorial and setting things up. Complete newbie to the framework... I've found a bunch of similar problems on this forum, but none seems like an exact match... Thanks!

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 11, in <module>
    execute_manager(settings)
  File "/Applications/djangostack-1.2.5-0/apps/django/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 438, in execute_manager
    utility.execute()
  File "/Applications/djangostack-1.2.5-0/apps/django/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 379, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/Applications/djangostack-1.2.5-0/apps/django/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 191, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File "/Applications/djangostack-1.2.5-0/apps/django/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 220, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/Applications/djangostack-1.2.5-0/apps/django/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 351, in handle
    return self.handle_noargs(**options)
  File "/Applications/djangostack-1.2.5-0/apps/django/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 56, in handle_noargs
    cursor = connection.cursor()
  File "/Applications/djangostack-1.2.5-0/apps/django/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/__init__.py", line 75, in cursor
    cursor = self._cursor()
  File "/Applications/djangostack-1.2.5-0/apps/django/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/postgresql_psycopg2/base.py", line 136, in _cursor
    self.connection = Database.connect(**conn_params)
psycopg2.OperationalError: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
    Is the server running locally and accepting
    connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Answer 1

To summarize the comments in an answer, the basic problem is that Bitami requires settings to be set in other files.

1. The port must be set in djangostack-1.2.5-0/postgresql/scripts/ctl.sh

2. Some other settings, including the username of postgres, get set in the settings.py so this may need to be changed as well.