settings.py

import os

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'), ]
STATIC_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
DEBUG = True
ALLOWED_HOSTS = [ '127.0.0.1' ]
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'accounts', ]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware', ]
ROOT_URLCONF = 'dowellProject.urls'
TEMPLATES = [{
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': TEMPLATE_DIRS,
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
                'django.contrib.staticfiles',
                'django.template.context_processors.media',
            ], },},]

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'dowellProject.wsgi.application'
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        #'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
        'NAME': 'some_DB',
        'USER': 'postgres',
        'PASSWORD': 'morrky',
        'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
        'PORT': '5432',
    }
}
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
    },
]
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [STATIC_DIR.replace("\\", "/"),]