How can I disable Django's admin in a deployed project, but keep it for local development?

Question

I am currently working in a Django project for which I need access to the admin area for local development, but want to disable it in the deployed site (for security reasons, am

Answer 1

@madneon 's answer is terrific but requires an update and a small correction, and unfortunately the suggested edit queue is full.

For the first part, as it implies the use of @Ned Batchelder 's answer, the use of patterns() is no longer supported in Django 1.9 and above.

A current implemention could look like:

from django.conf import settings
from django.urls import path

urlpatterns = []

if settings.ADMIN_ENABLED is True:
    urlpatterns += [path('admin/', admin.site.urls),]

urlpatterns += [
   # ... Other paths
]

For the second part regarding appending to INSTALLED_APPS, this needs to go in the settings.py file and cannot be placed in the urls files.

As such, it should be written:

if ADMIN_ENABLED is True:
    INSTALLED_APPS.append('django.contrib.admin')

If you include settings. before ADMIN_ENABLED you'll get an error.