settings.py

import os
import sys
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
PROJECT_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
if sys.platform == "darwin":
    DEBUG = True
    TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True

else:
    DEBUG = False
    TEMPLATE_DEBUG = False

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*"]

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'while42',
    'rest_framework',
    'storages',
    'south',
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    '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',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'urls'

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'While42API.wsgi.application'

DATABASES = {
    "default": {
        "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2",
        "NAME": "while42",
        "USER": "",
        "PASSWORD": "",
        "HOST": "localhost",
        "PORT": "",
    }
}

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True

STATIC_ROOT = 'staticfiles'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
)

TEMPLATE_DIR = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'templates')

AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = 'while42'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage'
S3_URL = 'http://%s.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/' \
         % AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME
STATIC_URL = S3_URL
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX'

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'While42API/static'),

)


REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated',
    ),
    'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer',
    ),

    'DEFAULT_MODEL_SERIALIZER_CLASS':
        'rest_framework.serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer',

    'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_SERIALIZER_CLASS':
        'rest_framework.pagination.PaginationSerializer',
    'PAGINATE_BY': 10,
    'PAGINATE_BY_PARAM': 'page_size',
    'MAX_PAGINATE_BY': 50

}

import dj_database_url

DATABASES['default'] = \
    dj_database_url.config(default='postgres://localhost/while42')