Transitional for moving to new settings scheme. To use: rake lms or django-admin.py runserver --settings=lms.envs.dev --pythonpath=. NOTE: Using manage.py will automatically run mitx/settings.py first, regardless of what you send it for an explicit --settings flag. It still works, but might have odd side effects. Using django-admin.py avoids that problem. django-admin.py is installed by default when you install Django. To use with gunicorn_django in debug mode: gunicorn_django lms/envs/dev.py