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Unable to set the SECRET_KEY variable

Problem: I see this error when I run this python manage.py runserver:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Unable to set the SECRET_KEY variable from os.environ or JSON file

Solution:

1. Look in WeVoteServer/config

2. Make sure you made a copy from environment_variables-template.json to environment_variables.json

“libGeoIP.so.1: cannot open..."

On Amazon Linux (Fedora), if you get a “libGeoIP.so.1: cannot open shared object No such file or directory” error when you run WeVoteServer:

$ sudo vi /etc/ld.so.conf

Add on a new line:

/usr/local/lib

Then run:

$ sudo ldconfig