Settings¶
This project relies extensively on environment settings which will not work with Apache/mod_wsgi setups. It has been deployed successfully with both Gunicorn/Nginx and even uWSGI/Nginx.
For configuration purposes, the following table maps environment variables to their Django setting:
Environment Variable | Django Setting | Development Default | Production Default |
---|---|---|---|
DJANGO_ADMIN_URL | n/a | r’^admin/’ | raises error |
DJANGO_CACHES | CACHES (default) | locmem | redis |
DJANGO_DATABASES | DATABASES (default) | See code | See code |
DJANGO_DEBUG | DEBUG | True | False |
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY | SECRET_KEY | CHANGEME!!! | raises error |
DJANGO_SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER | SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER | n/a | True |
DJANGO_SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT | SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT | n/a | True |
DJANGO_SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF | SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF | n/a | True |
DJANGO_SECURE_FRAME_DENY | SECURE_FRAME_DENY | n/a | True |
DJANGO_SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS | HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS | n/a | True |
DJANGO_SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY | SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY | n/a | True |
DJANGO_SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE | SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE | n/a | False |
DJANGO_DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL | DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL | n/a | “your_project_name <noreply@your_domain_name>” |
DJANGO_SERVER_EMAIL | SERVER_EMAIL | n/a | “your_project_name <noreply@your_domain_name>” |
DJANGO_EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX | EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX | n/a | “[your_project_name] “ |
DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS | ALLOWED_HOSTS | [‘*’] | [‘your_domain_name’] |