I used dotenv module installed with pip
On Wed, 2 Mar 2022, 04:43 Adeyemi Deji, <adeyemide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I also get this error anytime I deploy. It works on developments mode. I
> suspect the error coming as a result of adding .env to .gitignore, which
> doesn't reflect on GitHub and heroku doesn't have access to .env file. Pls
> how do I sort this out?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2022, 04:25 Mike Dewhirst, <mi...@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On 2/03/2022 9:00 am, Dev femibadmus wrote:
>>
>> Do u create the variable SECRET_KEY if no copy ur secret_key e.g
>> "hdFgBv&$..." and create variable SECRET_KEY in ur env which could be or is
>> ur hosting platform and give the value as ur secret_key
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 21:19 Valdinia - Office <off...@valdinia.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On W10 I defined an environment variable: SECRET_KEY
>>> In shell I can read the key:
>>>
>>> *>>> import os*
>>> *>>> os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY')*
>>> 'mysecretkey...'
>>>
>>> But when I'm doing the same thing in *settings.py* I get:
>>>
>>> \lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 90, in __getattr__
>>> raise
>>> *ImproperlyConfigured("The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty.")
>>> django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The SECRET_KEY setting must
>>> not be empty.*
>>>
>>> I found all sorts of solutions, but none works for my app. What should I
>>> do?
>>>
>>
>> SECRET_KEY belongs in settings.py as a string
>>
>> Therefore, if you wish to avoid putting it in there directly (as we all
>> do) you must call a function which returns a string.
>>
>> SECRET_KEY = get_secret_key()
>>
>> ... where you write get_secret_key() to pull it from the environment or a
>> file somewhere which is not in your repository.
>>
>> In my case, I wrote get_creds() as a general purpose retriever of
>> credentials and other bits and pieces which don't belong in the repository
>> and/or change between servers, eg., staging vs production vs development
>> etc. I keep those credentials in separate files in a standard location on
>> every server.
>>
>> That is only suitable for servers I control.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
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