Demonstration of overriding Django settings in different environment(e.g. development, test, production, ...)

test_settings.py

from web.settings import * # import all settings from base settings web/settings.py

# overriding the settings
FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = ''

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': config['TEST_DATABASE']['name'], # this config comes from config.ini file
        'USER': config['TEST_DATABASE']['username'],
        'PASSWORD': config['TEST_DATABASE']['password'],
        'HOST': config['TEST_DATABASE']['host'],
        'PORT': config['TEST_DATABASE']['port'],
    }
}