Access Apache SetEnv variable from Django wsgi.py file

Question

I\'m trying to separate out Django\'s secret key and DB pass into environmental variables, as widely suggested, so I can use identical code bases between local/production se

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem of separating production and development code while tracking both of them into version control. I solved the problem using different wsgi scripts, one for production server and one for development server. Create two different setting files as mentioned here. And reference them in wsgi scripts. For example the following is wsgi_production.py file

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import os
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "project.settings.production")
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and in wsgi_development.py file

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import os
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "project.settings.development")
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