How to properly runserver on different settings for Django?

Question

I have a basic django rest API. I want to separate some of my settings for dev and prod just for organizational purposes. I\'m also just learning about separating environments.

Answer 1

Create a folder called config

config/
    commonsettings.py
    dev.py
    prod.py

make sure that in dev.py and prod.py you import everything from commonsettings.py like this:

from .commonsettings import * 

then if you want to run the dev.py settings:

python manage.py runserver --settings=config.dev

if you want to run prod.py:

python manage.py runserver --settings=config.prod

NOTE:

For more readable files many developers call their settings files: local.py (for the local settings) production.py (for the production settings) and base.py (the common settings for both)

Personally I place my setting files in:

config/
    settings/
        base.py
        local.py
        production.py
        test.py (For tests)