# 73. Settings

We will overhaul our settings.py file. Inside the ecommerce folder, we will create a new folder called settings and inside it add four files, \_\_init.py\_\_, base.py, production.py, and development.py.&#x20;

What we are doing is we are spliting our settings configurations into two, one for production enviroment and the other for development, so we can automatically switch between them when making further work. The base.py will contain common settings necessary for both.

{% code title="" overflow="wrap" lineNumbers="true" %}
```python
"""
Django settings for ecommerce project.

Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 5.0.3.

For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/settings/

For the full list of settings and their values, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/settings/
"""

from pathlib import Path
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os

# Build paths inside the project like this: BASE_DIR / 'subdir'.
BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent


# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
load_dotenv()
SECRET_KEY = os.getenv('secret_key')


# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'store', #? Adding the 'store' app to the main configuration
    
]


MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
]

ROOT_URLCONF = 'ecommerce.urls'

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
                'store.new_context.cart',
                'store.new_context.category_type',
                'store.new_context.is_part_of_team',
            ],
        },
    },
]

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'ecommerce.wsgi.application'


# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/settings/#databases



# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators

AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
    },
]


# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-US'

TIME_ZONE = 'America/Sao_Paulo'

USE_I18N = True

USE_TZ = True


# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Image)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/howto/static-files/


STATIC_URL = '/static/'  # The URL prefix for serving static files.

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    'static'# The directory where Django looks for static files during development.
]


MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '../media')

STATIC_ROOT = 'staticfiles'  # Directory where collectstatic will gather static files.


# Default primary key field type
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/settings/#default-auto-field

DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'

LOGIN_URL = 'perform_login'

EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"
EMAIL_HOST = "smtp.gmail.com"
EMAIL_PORT = 587 #? port gmail uses
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True #? encryption
EMAIL_HOST_USER = os.getenv('email_host_user')
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = os.getenv('email_host_password')

```
{% endcode %}
