Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How it works...

By default, the Django management commands use the settings from myproject/settings.py. Using the method that is defined in this recipe, we can keep all of the required nonsensitive settings for all environments under version control in the config directory. On the other hand, the settings.py file itself would be ignored by version control and will only contain the settings that are necessary for the current development, testing, staging, or production environments.

For each environment, it is recommended that you set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable individually, either in PyCharm settings, the env/bin/activate script, or in .bash_profile.