Cookie Cutter

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Location within the Book

• Chapter or Appendix: 5
• Section: 4
• Subsection: settings/local.py

Description

The Instructions to use cookie cutter and then replace the settings/local.py config fails when using the literal code in Example 5.4. The warning that comes up is "django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty."

The instructions in the book cannot be followed explicitly. Also to get
python manage.py runserver --settings=config.settings.local

working one also needs to edit two os.environ fields in manage.py and in local.py as seen in stackoverflow answer by Jinesh.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19128540/django-improperlyconfigured-the-secret-key-setting-must-not-be-empty