How to have different settings.py locally and in production

I want to have different settings.py for when I run my project locally and in production, because I have a setting in settings.py that forces my project to use https, but django runserver.py can only use http, not https, so I am unable to run my project locally now. Also, I want to have debug=True on my computer, and debug=False in production. So how can I have a different settings.py for my computer and for production?

Solution

There are some options, one these to create two settings files:

add the following to the end of your settings.py:

import os
# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
PROJECT_APP_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
PROJECT_APP = os.path.basename(PROJECT_APP_PATH)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(PROJECT_APP_PATH)

DEBUG = False
...

...

##################
# LOCAL SETTINGS #
##################

# Allow any settings to be defined in local_settings.py which should be
# ignored in your version control system allowing for settings to be
# defined per machine.

f = os.path.join(PROJECT_APP_PATH, "local_settings.py")
if os.path.exists(f):
    import sys
    import imp
    module_name = "%s.local_settings" % PROJECT_APP
    module = imp.new_module(module_name)
    module.__file__ = f
    sys.modules[module_name] = module
    exec(open(f, "rb").read())

Create local_settings.py and overwrite the desired settings:

#####################
# OVERWRITE SETTINGS #
#####################

DEBUG = True
SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = None
SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT = False


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