How to manage local vs production settings in Django?

Question

What is the recommended way of handling settings for local development and the production server? Some of them (like constants, etc) can be changed/accessed in both, but s

Answer 1

I am also working with Laravel and I like the implementation there. I tried to mimic it and combining it with the solution proposed by T. Stone (look above):

PRODUCTION_SERVERS = ['*.webfaction.com','*.whatever.com',]

def check_env():
    for item in PRODUCTION_SERVERS:
        match = re.match(r"(^." + item + "$)", socket.gethostname())
        if match:
            return True

if check_env():
    PRODUCTION = True
else:
    PRODUCTION = False

DEBUG = not PRODUCTION

Maybe something like this would help you.