How do you configure Django for simple development and deployment?

Question

I tend to use SQLite when doing Django development, but on a live server something more robust is often needed (MySQL/PostgreSQL, for example). Invariably, there are other c

Answer 1

The most simplistic way I found was:

1) use the default settings.py for local development and 2) create a production-settings.py starting with:

import os
from settings import *

And then just override the settings that differ in production:

DEBUG = False
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG


DATABASES = {
    'default': {
           ....
    }
}