I'm trying to deploy my Django project using Heroku, but now stuck with the empty SECRET_KEY problem when I run the heroku run python manage.py syncdb command:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 10, in execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 338, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute()
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 330, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 190, in fetch_command klass = load_command_class(app_name, subcommand)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 40, in load_command_class module = import_module('%s.management.commands.%s' % (app_name, name))
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/importlib/init.py", line 37, in import_module import(name)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 4, in from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/init.py", line 7, in from django.middleware.csrf import rotate_token
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/middleware/csrf.py", line 14, in from django.utils.cache import patch_vary_headers
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/cache.py", line 26, in from django.core.cache import caches
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/cache/init.py", line 34, in if DEFAULT_CACHE_ALIAS not in settings.CACHES:
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 48, in getattr self._setup(name)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 44, in _setup self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 113, in init raise ImproperlyConfigured("The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty.") django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty.
However, running python manage.py syncdb is totally fine. In my settings.py file, I even wrote the SECRET_EKY explicitly as:
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
SECRET_KEY = '*$_99!t5u&#w&9boeq()=obq@rjdsfasdfa#8hp_5s%h-mh(hk'`
I still got the same problem. I wondered if the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE was missing, but running heroku config gave me (I replaced the information with xxx):
DATABASE_URL: xxx
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: xxx
SECRET_KEY: xxx
It seems that the relevant environment variables do exist. I really hope you could give me some suggestions. Thank you very much in advance.
I faced this issues a while ago. The following command resolved the issue for me
command: heroku config:set SECRET_KEY="your_secret_key"