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ashes999

Reputation: 1324

Heroku application error on Celery: raise ImproperlyConfigured("The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty.")

I am trying to deploy my Django app on Heroku. Whenever I go to my app I am getting an error:

2020-09-06T20:31:59.000436+00:00 app[web.1]: raise ImproperlyConfigured("The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty.")
2020-09-06T20:31:59.000477+00:00 app[web.1]: django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty

I have now two settings file so in my projects folder which contains the wsgi.py. I have a folder called settings/ which is:

settings
--common.py
--development.py
--productions.py

In my production.py I have:

from register.settings.common import *
import os
import django_heroku

DEBUG = False

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['0.0.0.0', 'localhost', '127.0.0.1','appname.heroku.com']

SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY')
EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_USER')
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.environ.get('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD')

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'


django_heroku.settings(locals())

And in my wsgi.py and manage.py I have:

os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'register.settings.production')

Now I have added the Postgres add-on from the dashboard and can check that I also have it using the Heroku CLI.

I have also added a custom domain name of www.myapp.com as well which I do not know if this is causing the issue.

For pushing to master I did:

heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1

and then:

git push heroku master

What is causing this issue? When I do python manage.py run server I also get the error:

raise ImproperlyConfigured("The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty.")
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty.

I also get this error in my Heroku logs when I check it how can I set the secret key?

EDIT 2

The issue seems to be with my celery.py file, however, I have tried changing the settings to point to production.py (register in my projects root folder):

from __future__ import absolute_import
import os
from celery import Celery
from django.conf import settings
import django

app = Celery('register')

app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings', namespace='CELERY')
app.autodiscover_tasks(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)

in my manage.py I have:

os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'register.settings.development') Which the command manage.py runserver works however, now I get an error:

8:52:21 PM web.1 |      raise ImproperlyConfigured("The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty.")
8:52:21 PM web.1 |  django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty.

in this line in my wsgi.py file:

os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'register.settings.production') application = get_wsgi_application()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 191

Answers (1)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 136918

It looks like you simply haven't set your SECRET_KEY.

You try to import it from the environment in your settings module, but this depends on an environment variable called SECRET_KEY existing:

SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY')

On Heroku, the best way to set this environment varialbe is to set a config var. This can be done with the Heroku CLI:

heroku config:set SECRET_KEY=some_value

or in the web dashboard.

Upvotes: 1

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