How to keep all my django applications in specific folder

Question

I have a Django project, let's say "project1". Typical folder structure for applications is:

/project1/          /app1/          /app2/          ...          __init__.py          manage.py          settings.py          urls.py 

What should I do if I want to hold all of my applications in some separate folder, 'apps' for example? So that structure should look like the following:

/project/          apps/               app1/               app2/               ...          __init__.py          manage.py          settings.py          urls.py 

Answer 1

You can add your apps folder to your python path by inserting the following in your settings.py:

import os import sys  PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__) sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'apps')) 

Then you can use all the apps in this folder just in the same way as they were in your project root!

Answer 2

You can do this very easily, but you need to change the settings.py to look like this:

INSTALLED_APPS = (     'apps.app1',     'apps.app2',     # ... ) 

And your urls.py to look like this:

urlpatterns = patterns('',      (r'^app1/',include('apps.app1')),         (r'^app2/',include('apps.app2')),     ) 

.. and modify any imports to point to the app location