---
title: "Generate Settings"
description: "How to generate a default Corridor configuration file with the settings generate command, useful after a version upgrade."
---

Corridor provides an option to generate the default configuration file at any point of time.
This is particularly useful when doing a [Corridor version upgrade](/technology/maintenance/upgrading-corridor/) as during upgrades, the existing configuration
files are not overwritten.
The user can generate the latest configuration file and look at the default values for any new setting which
might have been added in that version.

The command is available for the components:

- `corridor-api`
- `corridor-app`
- `corridor-worker`
- `corridor-jupyter`

Available options:

```bash
$ corridor-api settings generate --help

Usage: corridor-api settings generate [OPTIONS]

  Generates a config file with default configurations.

Options:
  --file PATH                   The location to generate the config file.
  --overwrite / --no-overwrite  Whether to overwrite the config file if
                                already present.

  --help                        Show this message and exit.
```

The default settings files would be generated in the config folder inside the instance path:
`INSTALL_DIR/instances/INSTANCE_NAME/config`

## Example

To generate the configuration file `/opt/corridor/api_config_latest.py` for `corridor-api`, run:

```bash
corridor-api settings generate --file /opt/corridor/api_config_latest.py
```