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

Replace settings.py with dev.py on dev server and prod.py on production server.

now in init.py files write code

try:
    print("Trying import production.py settings...")
    from .prod import *
except ImportError:
    print("Trying import development.py settings...")
    from .dev import *

it find prod.py in production server and import it. On dev server it not find and prod.py and import dev.py

then you don't need to specify configuration file name while running runserver command.