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

1 - Create a new folder inside your app and name settings to it.

2 - Now create a new __init__.py file in it and inside it write

from .base import *

try:
    from .local import *
except:
    pass

try:
    from .production import *
except:
    pass

3 - Create three new files in the settings folder name local.py and production.py and base.py.

4 - Inside base.py, copy all the content of previous settings.py folder and rename it with something different, let's say old_settings.py.

5 - In base.py change your BASE_DIR path to point to your new path of setting

Old path-> BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

New path -> BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

This way, the project dir can be structured and can be manageable among production and local development.