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Ismail Sarenkapic
Ismail Sarenkapic

Reputation: 140

Creating .env file on the root of the project

I am trying to download a Django project from github and one of the requirements is:"As the project uses python-decouple you will need to create a file named .env on the root of the project with three values, as following:

DEBUG=True
SECRET_KEY='mys3cr3tk3y'
DATABASE_URL='postgres://u_bootcamp:p4ssw0rd@localhost:5432/bootcamp

"

1.What(where) is the root part of the project, is it part of the project where are settings?

2.What kind of file should .env be?(python package I suppose)

3.Should name of the file be simply .env(or something.env)?

4.Is .env file going to be imported in settings file?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 30669

Answers (1)

Aamir Rind
Aamir Rind

Reputation: 39689

  1. What(where) is the root part of the project, is it part of the project where are settings?

    • Where your manage.py file is (that is your project root directory).

  2. What kind of file should .env be? (python package I suppose)

    • .env is a text file not a package.

  3. Should name of the file be simply .env (or something.env)?

    • Just .env

  4. Is .env file going to be imported in settings file?

    • No need to import, python-decouple automatically picks variables from there.

Read more about Where the settings data are stored? and Usage of python-decouple.

Upvotes: 26

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