Question

I have a project that may be started on local machine with ./manage.py runserver and on the remote server with uwsgi. I have two settings files: settings (for local machine) and prod_settings. So when I start project with uwsgi I simply use this option

env = DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=prod_settings

But sometimes I have to know what module is currently active. I can check DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE key but think that it is not the True way. Tried to google something but found nothing yet.

Thanks for your advices.

Answer 1

in your settings files:

import os
SETTINGS_MODULE = os.path.abspath(__file__)

(or whatever you want)

but if it’s just for debugging, that’s not that much of an improvement wrt/ reading env[“DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE”].