i have accidently delete my sceret key form settings.py in django

Question

while pulling from git hub i lost my secret key which i have updated. is there any way to obtain secret key for the same project.

while pulling from git hub i lost my secret key which i have updated. is there any way to obtain secret key for the same project.

Answer 1

run : python manage.py shell write and enter the following lines sequentially:

from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key
print(get_random_secret_key())
exit()

copy this secret_key to your settings.py SECRET_KEY. And reload this server. If it will not work, refresh the page with ctrl+shift+r, delete cache.

If it will not work again, try to remove all rows from django_session table where in your database.

My English skills are not good, sorry about that.

Answer 2

I don't think there is a way to restore a secret key unless you remember a place where you stored it. But I don't think that's critical that you lost it, just set a new one. It should mostly affect the existing users' sessions, i.e. currently logged in users will be signed-out and will have to sign in again.

See what SECRET_KEY is used for here

Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them.