diff --git a/bookshare/settings/secret.py.template b/bookshare/settings/secret.py.template
index 11f6cfccb37bb22305af5d690bf9dee255553db2..3bc5b00075131acea6128ad9211b5be049efdb52 100644
--- a/bookshare/settings/secret.py.template
+++ b/bookshare/settings/secret.py.template
@@ -19,16 +19,20 @@ DB_PORT = ''
 # configurations for your piwik tracking server
 # if you do not set these, the tracking js will silently break
 PIWIK_SITE_ID = ''
-PIWIK_URL = ''
+PIWIK_URL = 'https://piwik.srct.gmu.edu/'
+
+# configurations to send email via Django's smtplib
+HOST_EMAIL_USER = ''
+HOST_EMAIL_PASSWORD = ''
 
 # configurations to send email via Amazon SES
 # if you do not set these, you simply won't be able to mark listings exchanged
-EMAIL_HOST = 'email-smtp.region-code.amazonaws.com'
-EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'ses-smtp-username'
-EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'ses-smtp-password'
+SES_HOST = 'email-smtp.region-code.amazonaws.com'
+SES_USER = 'ses-smtp-username'
+SES_PASSWORD = 'ses-smtp-password'
 
 # configurations to upload user media to Amazon S3
 # these settings will not matter if MEDIA_S3 is set to False in settings.py
-AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = 'my-bucket'
-AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = ''
-AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = ''
+S3_BUCKET_NAME = 'my-bucket'
+S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID = ''
+S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = ''