Creating a production environment

It's time to deploy your Django project in a production environment. You are going to follow these steps to get your project live:

• Configure project settings for a production environment
• Use a PostgreSQL database
• Set up a web server with uWSGI and NGINX
• Serve static assets through NGINX
• Secure connections using SSL
• Use Daphne to serve Django Channels

Managing settings for multiple environments

In real-world projects, you will have to deal with multiple environments. You will have at least a local and a production environment, but you could have other environments as well, such as testing or preproduction environments. Some project settings will be common to all environments, but others will have to be overridden per environment. Let's set up project settings for multiple environments, while keeping everything neatly organized.

Create a settings/ directory next to the settings.py file...