Odulaja Philip Temitayo Thank you for your quick response. I am doing a training with Zuri, Fullstack_python. And I'm in a team whose project task is to create an e-commerce website using django. So i got a repo for similar workdone and I cloned it from the github repo. All I want to do is study it so as to be able to do my team's task. But the project key is hidden. So each time I want to make migrations or do "python manage.py runserver", it keeps giving me the "set the Secrete_key environment variable" error message. And I can't find any .env file. The only env file in the project folder is empty. I am new to django. I will really need you to walk me through on this. As for the link you sent, I don't understand it either. please the work deadline is wednesday. Thank you