config.cfg not applied after changing PASSWORD in config.cfg

[majinman]

Describe the bug
I followed documentation. To change login account for dashboard, I generated config.cfg and set that file like below.
But it didn't work. It seems that application find config.cfg because when I type wrong filename, the error occurs.

application = Flask(__name__, template_folder='admin/templates')
dashboard.config.init_from(file='/config.cfg')
dashboard.bind(application)

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[FlyingBird95]

Hey @majinman ,

Thanks for your issue. In order to find out what went wrong with your configuration, I would like to check the following two things:

• Is the configuration that you're using the equivalent to our example configuration file, that you can find here?: https://github.com/flask-dashboard/Flask-MonitoringDashboard/blob/master/config.cfg
• It seems that you're using an absolute path file=/config.cfg. Have you tried to put the config file in your repository-root folder, and using a relative path? file=config.cfg.

Let me know if anything helps,

Kind regards,

Patrick

[majinman]

Thanks for replying @FlyingBird95

• Yes, it is the same file as file you uploaded.
• config.cfg is in root folder. And when I set path as '/config.cfg', I got an error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 26, in <module>
    dashboard.config.init_from(file='./config.cfg')
  File "/Users/ethan/.virtualenvs/serendipity/lib/python3.6/site-packages/flask_monitoringdashboard/core/config/__init__.py", line 128, in init_from
    self.version = parse_version(parser, 'dashboard', self.version)
  File "/Users/ethan/.virtualenvs/serendipity/lib/python3.6/site-packages/flask_monitoringdashboard/core/config/parser.py", line 24, in parse_version
    git_file = (open(os.path.join(git, 'HEAD')).read().rsplit(': ', 1)[1]).rstrip()
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/<path to your project>/.git/HEAD'

So I use /config.cfg then, flask app starts well. However, config.cfg not applied

[FlyingBird95]

Hey @majinman ,

Thanks for your stack trace. It seems that you haven't configured the file correctly.

Try to replace line 3 GIT=/<path to your project>/.git/ with the actual location of your git folder. Someting like GIT=/Users/ethan/your-repo/.git/.

Let me know if it works,

Patrick

[majinman]

Thanks @FlyingBird95
It works! But is it possible to set config variable using object? like flask config.
As you know, project root directory path get different when I deploy project on Production Server.