superset_config.py doesn't work

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Superset version

0.15.0

Expected results

the parameters in superset_config.py should work.

Actual results

the parameters in superset_config.py don’t work.

Steps to reproduce

1. vim superset_config.py SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'sqlite:////path/to/superset.db' DRUID_IS_ACTIVE = False and mv superset_config.py /usr/local/superset

2. add PYTHONPATH in /etc/profile export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/superset:$PYTHONPATH or export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/superset source /etc/profile

3. run superset I set wrong SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI but superset still works

so the superset_config.py doesn’t works, something wrong?

[pawan-kv]

Maybe Im not getting you quite right.

But this is how we can override “config.py” default settings:

1. create a new file “superset_config.py” in some directory say “/home/local_settings/”. Add line: SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'sqlite:////home/data/superset.db' (or any path u have write permissions to)

2. Now you can do either: export PYTHONPATH=/home/local_settings/:$PYTHONPATH OR export SUPERSET_CONFIG_PATH=/home/local_settings/

Thats it.

[astawiarski]

Didn’t work for me in superset 0.18.0 . When setting SUPERSET_CONFIG_PATH=/code/superset/ it was throwing this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/superset", line 12, in <module>
    from superset.cli import manager
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/superset/__init__.py", line 21, in <module>
    from superset import utils, config  # noqa
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/superset/config.py", line 305, in <module>
    imp.load_source('superset_config', os.environ[CONFIG_PATH_ENV_VAR])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/imp.py", line 172, in load_source
    module = _load(spec)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 693, in _load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 669, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 774, in get_code
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/imp.py", line 158, in get_data
    return super().get_data(path)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 826, in get_data
IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/code/superset/'

What did work is setting the full path to the file, not just directory. SUPERSET_CONFIG_PATH=/code/superset/superset_config.py