How to properly runserver on different settings for Django?

Question

I have a basic django rest API. I want to separate some of my settings for dev and prod just for organizational purposes. I\'m also just learning about separating environments.

Answer 1

Project Hierarchy will be

- djangorest
  - api
    - __init__.py
    - models.py
    - views.py
    - urls.py
    - etc..
  - djangorest
    - settings           (folder)
    - commonsettings.py
    - dev.py
    - prod.py
    - __init__.py
    - settings.py
    - urls.py
    - wsgi.py

After This run following commands before python manage.py runserver

export PYTHONPATH=$PWD

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=djangorest.settings.dev

and Finally python manage.py runserver