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_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)

DJANGO_ADMIN_FORCE_ALLAUTH (=False)

Force the admin sign in process to go through the django-allauth workflow.