New environment varibles does not show up in django app

Question

I have added some new environment variables to my virtualenv. Added:

export BROKER_URL='amqp://guest:guest@localhost/prod'

to my bin/activate file.

But reloading uswgi does not make the new variables show up in my django app where I try and get it with:

BROKER_URL = os.environ.get('BROKER_URL')

Where did you add the environment variables? Is it in `postactivate` script? — Antoine Pinsard, Mar 03 '16 at 15:46
I think you are not supposed to edit `bin/activate`. The hook `bin/postactivate` is executed after `bin/activate`. I have all my environment variables in this file. — Antoine Pinsard, Mar 03 '16 at 16:05
Just tried moving them, but it is still not working. Still not picking up the new environment varibles — Christoffer, Mar 03 '16 at 16:11
Does it work when you activate the environment from the console? `unset BROKER_URL; source bin/activate; echo $BROKER_URL` — Antoine Pinsard, Mar 03 '16 at 16:13
Forget what is said about `postactivate`, I think it is only part of virtualenvwrapper. — Antoine Pinsard, Mar 03 '16 at 16:16
Maybe this could help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9554087/setting-an-environment-variable-in-virtualenv — Antoine Pinsard, Mar 03 '16 at 16:19

Christoffer · Answer 1 · 2016-03-03T19:46:35.063

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The problem is that uwsgi does not pick up variables in the activate file. Guess it is not using it when run by supervisor

Solution is to add the environment variable to the uwsgi ini file like so:

env = BROKER_URL=amqp://guest:guest@localhost/prod

edited Mar 03 '16 at 19:46

answered Mar 03 '16 at 19:10

Christoffer

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