Django. Using multiple settings files with Heroku

Question

I am trying to follow the advice of the book \"Two Scoops of Django\" and although it is a really good book, I think it this section is unclear. So, I split my settings fil

Answer 1

You can use the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to specify a default settings module:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/settings/#envvar-DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE

On local Linux machine:

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings.local

On Heroku:

heroku config:set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings.production