diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 82ce638e24652fda99b4442de0cf70d8660d4f49..f4a7742f164ff20f1ea065b4f337751f267f58b5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,4 +13,5 @@ config.py
 *.db
 /embody
 /app/static/lib
+.env
 
diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
index 26d0769b571c8e7f552ff5588aef47003fa91695..087604733d53112a8fd65554e3163312f828cde4 100644
--- a/config.py
+++ b/config.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import os
 basedir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 
+from decouple import config
+
 class Config(object):
 
     #seret key is set in __ini__.py
@@ -19,10 +21,10 @@ class Config(object):
 
     #MariaDB mysql database settings
 
-    MYSQL_USER = 'rating'
-    MYSQL_PASSWORD = 'rating_passwd'
-    MYSQL_SERVER = 'localhost'
-    MYSQL_DB = 'rating_db' 
+    MYSQL_USER = config('MYSQL_USER')
+    MYSQL_PASSWORD = config('MYSQL_PASSWORD')
+    MYSQL_SERVER = config('MYSQL_SERVER')
+    MYSQL_DB = config('MYSQL_DB')
     
     SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'mysql+pymysql://'+MYSQL_USER+':'+MYSQL_PASSWORD+'@'+MYSQL_SERVER+'/'+MYSQL_DB+'?charset=utf8mb4'
    
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b16b64a57e0eab8546e4b50f4ab5855fef2faaca..dc5de6c46671b624a8d5237027838bd05175ab99 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -54,3 +54,4 @@ visitor==0.1.3
 Werkzeug==0.14.1
 WTForms==2.2.1
 WTForms-SQLAlchemy==0.1
+python-decouple
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