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Most people simply wrap "from localsettings import *" in a try/except ImportError block. That's what I've done for years, but recently came up with this better way.
The problem this snippet solves is that if your localsettings.py itself causes an ImportError somehow, that error will be silently swallowed and your intended localsettings will be ignored. Instead, we use `imp` to first check if the module exists, then unconditionally try to import it.
- development
- staging
- production
- localsettings
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- settings
- staging
- environment
- production
- dev
- prod
- seperation
If you want to run multiple versions of a site from the same project IE a staging version and the live one, you need two settings and urlconf files.
1. make separate copies of settings_staging.py and urls_staging.py in the project dir.
2. Change SITE_ID and ROOT_URLCONF in settings_staging.py
3. Make extra include lines in the projects urls_staging.py like the example.
4. Add urls_staging.py to applications where you need extra urls. Make them just like you would normally do urls.py
Thanks to ronny for suggesting the double entries in urlconf.
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