Example manage.py file for using a settings/ directory

manage.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from os.path import abspath, dirname, join

from django.core.management import execute_manager

try:
    from settings import active as settings
except ImportError:
    sys.stderr.write("Error: Can't find the module 'active' in the directory containing %r. \
        (If the file settings.py does exist, it's causing an ImportError.)\n" % __file__)
    try:
        from settings import development as settings
        
    except:
        sys.stderr.write("Error: Can't find the module 'development' in the directory containing %r. \
        (If the file settings.py does exist, it's causing an ImportError.)\n" % __file__)
        sys.exit(1)

sys.path.insert(0, abspath(join(dirname(__file__), "../")))
sys.path.insert(0, join(settings.PROJECT_ROOT, "apps"))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    execute_manager(settings)

settings_dir.wsgi

import os, sys
from os.path import abspath, dirname, join

sys.stdout = sys.stderr
sys.path.insert(0, abspath(join(dirname(__file__), "../")))
sys.path.insert(0, abspath(join(dirname(__file__), "../../")))
sys.path.insert(0, abspath(join(dirname(__file__), "../apps")))

os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "settings.production"
os.environ["CELERY_LOADER"] = "django"

from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler
application = WSGIHandler()