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 and project settings:

Environment Variable	Django Setting	Development Default	Production Default
DJANGO_READ_DOT_ENV_FILE	READ_DOT_ENV_FILE	False	False

Environment Variable	Django Setting	Development Default	Production Default
DATABASE_URL	DATABASES	auto w/ Docker; postgres://project_slug w/o	raises error
DJANGO_ADMIN_URL	n/a	‘admin/’	raises error
DJANGO_DEBUG	DEBUG	True	False
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY	SECRET_KEY	auto-generated	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’]

The following table lists settings and their defaults for third-party applications, which may or may not be part of your project:

Environment Variable	Django Setting	Development Default	Production Default
CELERY_BROKER_URL	CELERY_BROKER_URL	auto w/ Docker; raises error w/o	raises error
DJANGO_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	n/a	raises error
DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	n/a	raises error
DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME	AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME	n/a	raises error
DJANGO_AWS_S3_REGION_NAME	AWS_S3_REGION_NAME	n/a	None
DJANGO_AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN	AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN	n/a	None
DJANGO_AWS_S3_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE	AWS_S3_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE	n/a	100_000_000
DJANGO_GCP_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME	GS_BUCKET_NAME	n/a	raises error
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS	n/a	n/a	raises error
DJANGO_AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY	AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY	n/a	raises error
DJANGO_AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME	AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME	n/a	raises error
DJANGO_AZURE_CONTAINER_NAME	AZURE_CONTAINER	n/a	raises error
SENTRY_DSN	SENTRY_DSN	n/a	raises error
SENTRY_ENVIRONMENT	n/a	n/a	production
SENTRY_TRACES_SAMPLE_RATE	n/a	n/a	0.0
DJANGO_SENTRY_LOG_LEVEL	SENTRY_LOG_LEVEL	n/a	logging.INFO
MAILGUN_API_KEY	MAILGUN_API_KEY	n/a	raises error
MAILGUN_DOMAIN	MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN	n/a	raises error
MAILGUN_API_URL	n/a	n/a	“https://api.mailgun.net/v3”
MAILJET_API_KEY	MAILJET_API_KEY	n/a	raises error
MAILJET_SECRET_KEY	MAILJET_SECRET_KEY	n/a	raises error
MAILJET_API_URL	n/a	n/a	“https://api.mailjet.com/v3”
MANDRILL_API_KEY	MANDRILL_API_KEY	n/a	raises error
MANDRILL_API_URL	n/a	n/a	“https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0”
POSTMARK_SERVER_TOKEN	POSTMARK_SERVER_TOKEN	n/a	raises error
POSTMARK_API_URL	n/a	n/a	“https://api.postmarkapp.com/”
SENDGRID_API_KEY	SENDGRID_API_KEY	n/a	raises error
SENDGRID_GENERATE_MESSAGE_ID	True	n/a	raises error
SENDGRID_MERGE_FIELD_FORMAT	None	n/a	raises error
SENDGRID_API_URL	n/a	n/a	“https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/”
SENDINBLUE_API_KEY	SENDINBLUE_API_KEY	n/a	raises error
SENDINBLUE_API_URL	n/a	n/a	“https://api.sendinblue.com/v3/”
SPARKPOST_API_KEY	SPARKPOST_API_KEY	n/a	raises error
SPARKPOST_API_URL	n/a	n/a	“https://api.sparkpost.com/api/v1”

Other Environment Settings

DJANGO_ACCOUNT_ALLOW_REGISTRATION (=True)

Allow enable or disable user registration through django-allauth without disabling other characteristics like authentication and account management. (Django Setting: ACCOUNT_ALLOW_REGISTRATION)