Yes, this totally cleared up the fog on my end: Exposing the .env on GitHub is a security risk (as opposed to having .env on a server). Thank you for taking the time to explain! And yes, I followed the steps in this post and everything works beautifully. Since I read your post and became aware of the issue of protecting Django secret, I've read other posts on how to do it-but none is as clean and easy to follow. So thank you for bringing this issue to the attention of new Django learners.
Yes, this totally cleared up the fog on my end: Exposing the .env on GitHub is a security risk (as opposed to having .env on a server). Thank you for taking the time to explain! And yes, I followed the steps in this post and everything works beautifully. Since I read your post and became aware of the issue of protecting Django secret, I've read other posts on how to do it-but none is as clean and easy to follow. So thank you for bringing this issue to the attention of new Django learners.
It is absolutely my pleasure! So glad it helped :)