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Environment Setup

This guide will walk you through setting up your local development environment using VS Code.

  1. Create .env file in the project root.

    # ──────────────── Django App Settings ────────────────

DEBUG=False
DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost 127.0.0.1 [::1]  # Add your domain or public IP for production

# ──────────────── Secret Key ────────────────
# IMPORTANT: Replace with a secure key in .env (do not use this template key)
SECRET_KEY=changeme-in-real-env

# ──────────────── Django Superuser (Auto Create) ────────────────
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME=admin
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_EMAIL=admin@example.com
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=admin123  # Change in real .env

# ──────────────── PostgreSQL Settings ────────────────
POSTGRES_DB=helpdesk
POSTGRES_USER=postgres    # Change or leave default
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=changeme123  # Change in real .env
POSTGRES_HOST=db
POSTGRES_PORT=5432

# ──────────────── Redis / Celery (Optional) ────────────────
REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0

Next Steps

With your local environment now set up, you are ready to start Arctyk ITSM using Docker.