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

I had my settings split as follows

settings/
     |
     |- base.py
     |- dev.py
     |- prod.py  

We have 3 environments

• dev
• staging
• production

Now obviously staging and production should have the maximum possible similar environment. So we kept prod.py for both.

But there was a case where I had to identify running server is a production server. @T. Stone 's answer helped me write check as follows.

from socket import gethostname, gethostbyname  
PROD_HOSTS = ["webserver1", "webserver2"]

DEBUG = False
ALLOWED_HOSTS = [gethostname(), gethostbyname(gethostname()),]


if any(host in PROD_HOSTS for host in ALLOWED_HOSTS):
    SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE = True
    CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE = True