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’]