Secret Key not found error while migration

[mirsahib]

Describe the bug

I like to contribute to this repo,so i clone it and successfully installed all the package mentioned in the requirment.txt but when i try to migrate the table using python manage.py migrate i am getting this secret key not found error.I have generated a new secret key from here and pasted in .env file (and yes i have renamed the file).Also i am little bit confused on how to get the database url in .env file should i have to install postgres seperately or there is any other way (some tutorial or resource link will be helpful)

To Reproduce

python manage.py migrate

Expected behavior

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 21, in <module>
    main()
  File "manage.py", line 17, in main
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/home/mirsahib/Desktop/bookomate/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 401, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/home/mirsahib/Desktop/bookomate/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 345, in execute
    settings.INSTALLED_APPS
  File "/home/mirsahib/Desktop/bookomate/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 76, in __getattr__
    self._setup(name)
  File "/home/mirsahib/Desktop/bookomate/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 63, in _setup
    self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
  File "/home/mirsahib/Desktop/bookomate/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 142, in __init__
    mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 783, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/home/mirsahib/Desktop/bookomate/bookomate/settings/base.py", line 24, in <module>
    SECRET_KEY = config('SECRET_KEY')
  File "/home/mirsahib/Desktop/bookomate/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/decouple.py", line 199, in __call__
    return self.config(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/mirsahib/Desktop/bookomate/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/decouple.py", line 83, in __call__
    return self.get(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/mirsahib/Desktop/bookomate/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/decouple.py", line 68, in get
    raise UndefinedValueError('{} not found. Declare it as envvar or define a default value.'.format(option))
decouple.UndefinedValueError: SECRET_KEY not found. Declare it as envvar or define a default value.

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• Version [e.g. 20.04 LTS]

[alucardthefish]

Hi @mirsahib

your .env file has to be something like this:

   DEBUG=True
   SECRET_KEY='PUT-YOUR-SECRET-KEY-HERE'
   DATABASE_URL='postgres://USER:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT/DB_NAME'

Before hand, you need to install postgresql in your machine and create a data base for the app with your postgres USER, PASSWORD, HOST (localhost), PORT (5432), and DB_NAME (whatever name your want for your db). But if you don't want all that, you can remove the DATABASE_URL line from .env file, then the web app will start by default a sqlite database for you.