Introduction

This is a reusable Django project template. These instructions explain how to configure development, staging, and production environments.

This setup uses:

• Ubuntu Server 12.04.03 LTS 64-bit
• Python 2.7.3
• Django 1.6.1

See requirements.txt for other dependencies. You can modify this setup, but I haven’t tested other configurations.

Project Settings

By default, Django projects use a single settings file. This is fine for development environments, but in production you’ll want different settings (for instance, to set Debug = False).

In this configuration, project-wide settings live in default.py and settings for specific enviroments (development, staging, and production) live in development.py and production.py. The instructions below explain how to configure settings for each environment.