To keep your Django applications neatly filed into a subfolder (such as apps/), first add the following to your settings.py:

import os
PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__)

Then in manage.py:

Right under #!/usr/bin/env python add:

import sys
from os.path import abspath, dirname, join
from site import addsitedir

Right before if __name__ == "__main__": add:

sys.path.insert(0, join(settings.PROJECT_ROOT, "apps"))

Now to figure out what to do in production…

Source

• Oebfare source code