Digital Adventures of Cyril Pauya

Here are some quick tips when moving your Django site into production.

Q: How to determine if site is in local or production setup?
A: Create a production.py in your production site.  In your settings.py, add the following lines:

try:
    import production
    PRODUCTION = True
except ImportError:
    PRODUCTION = False

Wherever in your code, you can do the following:

from django.conf import settings
...
if settings.PRODUCTION:
    # code for production...
else:
    # code for local...

Neat eh?