Running a single version of my Django app but with two databases: one for dev and one for prod

Hi, 

I'm developing a Django app, it's hosted on an EC2 instance so I'm using wsgi, even in development. I would like to create a production and a development version where really the only things that are different are the two databases. I want the code to be the same on both. I figured I could just have two settings files and two wsgi.py files so it's set up like this:

wsgi_prod.py:

import os

from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "canzare.settings.production")

application = get_wsgi_application()

wsgi_dev.py:

import os

from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "canzare.settings.development")

application = get_wsgi_application()

Then in my httpd.conf I have these lines:

WSGIScriptAlias /dev /home/canzare/work_area/canzare/canzare/wsgi_dev.py

WSGIScriptAlias / /home/canzare/work_area/canzare/canzare/wsgi_prod.py

The only real difference in the settings.py files is that they point to two different databases in mysql. 

This sort of works, I can access the production site with <mysite>/ and I can access the development site with <mysite>/dev/

But then everything falls apart. The admin site on both seems to be broken. It looks ok but if I try to perform any actions it tries to make me re-login. 

Also (and this may be the root of the other problem) I don't think migration works correctly. I can migrate to one instance but not the other. 

Has anybody come across something like this before and/or and I'm going about this completely wrong and is there a better way?

Thanks. 

Jim

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