How to upload a Django project to github with secret information in settings.py?

Question

Django

Hello!
There is a project written in Django. You need to upload it to github. Tell me what should be done with settings.py? After all, there is SECRET_KEY, information about connecting to the database. How to make it so that it's all hidden? And should it be hidden?

Answer 1

https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ 1. Create an .env
file on your local machine in the settings folder. Write the following in it:

DEBUG=on
SECRET_KEY=blablasecret

2. Add the .env file to .gitignore 3.
In settings.py , replace your variables with these:

import environ
env = environ.Env(
    DEBUG=(bool, False)
)
environ.Env.read_env()
DEBUG = env('DEBUG')
SECRET_KEY = env('SECRET_KEY')

If you will deploy to a server (VPS) - add the same file and generate SECRET_KEY there

Answer 2

I do this))
At the end of settings.py I add

try:
    from local_settings import *
except ImportError:
    pass