Modifing settings in Django
- by Cato Johnston
I'm trying to get Django's manage.py to run with modified settings files.
I have three settings files
settings.py
preview.py
live.py
settings.py contains my base settings but on live & preview sites I point the ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] to live or preview which in turn load the base file and any settings specific to that environment.
This works fine, until I try to run migrations using manage.py
I updated the manage.py file to import settings.preview but now when I try to run syncdb or migrate I get this error:
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured:
You haven't set the DATABASE_ENGINE
setting yet.
My settings file has this in it though:
DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql'
How can I get this to work?