Change Django/application settings to use environment variables

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Change Django/application settings to use environment variables #491

Closed khandelwal closed 9 years ago

khandelwal commented 9 years ago

Currently we use a local_settings.py file to contain settings such as database connection information. Let's change that to use environment variables.

This task is complete when:

[ ] All settings that need to be changed per development, staging, production are now stored in environment variables
[ ] We evaluate whether we want to keep the current local_settings.py mechanism, or just use something like autoenv and move to environment variables completely.
[ ] Change the README.md to reflect changes.

cmc333333 commented 9 years ago

Something that's worked well for us on peacecorps is to continue to separate vars into production, dev, etc. settings files, but use env vars to switch between them (DJANGO_SETTINGS). This probably wouldn't make sense between staging and production, though.

khandelwal commented 9 years ago

This pull request makes some settings into environment variables https://github.com/18F/foia-hub/pull/512/files and encourages the use of autoenv.