I’m updating my settings.py file because I’m changing smtp servers. After changing my setting I try sending mail and get SMTP Authentication Error. Looking down the error page I see it’s using the old settings.py values. I’ve restarted the app, deleted the pycache, and restarted browser. Any ideas?
Start with checking the fundamentals - verify that you have saved the changes, check the settings file using a method other than what you’re using to make the changes.
Verify that you don’t have a hidden or second instance of your app running. Stop the version that you think you’re accessing and try to go to your site. If you can still connect, then you need to find that non-obvious process.
Also verify that this is the settings file you are using. Make an invalid change - something that would definitely cause the system to break, and restart it.
I saved. I verified with vim. I stopped the app and the page wouldn’t come up. I commented out my import environ and that broke it. Put it back and it worked the same as before. I ran ./manage.py shell and imported from django.conf import settings. Then I tried to print that value and it printed the old one.
Next would be to verify that you don’t have duplicate settings in the file.
Beyond that, I think we might need to see the complete settings file.
I think I found something. When I’m using env() it uses the old value. If I put the string directly in there it works. So something with the file I’m calling or with the way I implemented Django-environ.
are you run project with --settings={ path.to.setting} option??