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

What I've always done is on the local env create a file called local_settings.py that can have it's own database settings, static path and so on and at the end of the settings file include this

try:
    from local_settings import *#
except:
    pass

so on the server I always make sure not to import the local_settings and it separates the two nicely.