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pythondjangoapachesettingsmod-wsgi
F.M.F.
F.M.F.

Reputation: 2292

Django + WSGI: When is wsgi.py called?

I deployed my Django-project via Apache2 on a server.

The problem I have is that I have two setting-modules: settings.py which are my local development settings and settingsprod.py which are my productive settings.

I found the following line in the WSGI.py:

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "proj.settings")

Is this module only called when using WSGI? And if yes is this a good place to use my production settings like so?

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "proj.settingsprod")

For local development I use the development server like so:

python3 manage.py runserver

Does this still defaults to settings.py then?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 517

Answers (1)

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 1357

Yes, your setup works as expected. Though if you use extra tools like celery, you might need to also specify the settingsprod for those setups aswell.

The way I handle such a situation is exactly the other way around: I use settings.py for my production settings and have an additional settings_development.py that I use for all development tasks. This way I don't have to remember setting the production settings in all production relevant files, but instead simply use the development settings for development like so:

python3 manage.py runserver --settings=proj.settings_development

If you often use manage.py commands and want to save some time typing, you can make a copy of your manage.py e.g. as manage_dev.py and change the settings module line like so:

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "proj.settings_development")

and then call your manage functions with:

python3 manage_dev.py runserver

Upvotes: 3

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