GeoDjango

From the GeoDjango Tutorial

apt install binutils libproj-dev gdal-bin
apt install postgresql-10-postgis-2.4

service postgresql restart

Django

settings.py:

DATABASES = {
    "default": {
        "ENGINE": "django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis",

To run the migrations, you need to be a Postgres superuser. If you don’t, you will get this error:

django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: permission denied to create extension "postgis"
HINT:  Must be superuser to create this extension.

To solve this issue, I temporarily updated my database user to postgres:

"USER": "postgres",
# "USER": get_env_variable("DATABASE_USER"),