What I'am trying to do is to use 2 databases in my django app. One is to be accessed from a remote server. Django settings has something like this
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
'NAME': 'snackvoxadmin'
},
'users': {
.....
}
}
The database user has a url like similar to this one: postgres://a78adj1he81....
You can decompose your database url and configure it like this:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
And the pattern for a database url is :
postgres://user:password@host:post/database
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/settings/#databases
Or you can use the package dj-database-url to directly use the database url.
E.g. from readme :
import dj_database_url
DATABASES = {'default': dj_database_url.parse('postgres://...')}
That URL presumably consists of a username, a password, and a host name/IP address. You could split them up yourself or use the dj-database-url library.
