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Gunicorn service can't read environment variables

I am having some troubles to configure a Django app (using virtualenv) with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 16.04.

Everything worked fine until I started setting some environment variables for some Django configuration variables. Ex.: SECRET_KEY = os.environ[‘DJANGO_SECRET_KEY’].

I have tried a lot of options like setting variables on virtualenv’s activate file, setting variables on ubuntu, and on gunicorn.service file but nothing is working.

Does anyone know how to work on this issue? How to set the environment variables?

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ehisdanomuokhonlen • August 11, 2022

Does anyone have solution? I’m facing same issue

Kamal Nasser • February 5, 2018

This question was answered by @kameruchi:

Hi! Instead of adding the variables to the gunicorn command line, you could load them through a file: <on gunicorn.service> [Service] … EnvironmentFile=/path_to_/some_file_with_secrets … This should make the trick. (dont forget to create the file with those secrets)

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