Creating a production environment

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

1. Configure project settings for a production environment
2. Use a PostgreSQL database
3. Set up a web server with uWSGI and NGINX
4. Serve static assets
5. Secure our site with SSL

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 pre-production 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 of the educa project. Rename the settings.py file to base.py and move it into the new settings/ directory. Create the following additional...