Update settings.py

Author: sdarwin

README.md

@@ -17,6 +17,3 @@ The mailman servers are installed using https://github.com/cppalliance/ansible-m
 - The settings.py file in ansible has been refactored so that instead of being an ansible template, it is static and leverages environment variables. See [settings.py](./settings.py).
 
 - **Environment Variables**: Copy file `env.template` to `.env` and adjust values to match your local environment.  
-
-- settings.py now includes an "import settings_custom" at the end of the file. One idea is to add customizations in [settings_custom.py](./settings_custom.py). If there are general improvements any mailman installation would use, put those in settings.py itself and submit the changes back to the ansible repository also.   
-

settings.py

@@ -195,8 +195,12 @@
     # Add custom middleware to set REMOTE_ADDR when using a unix domain socket
     MIDDLEWARE = MIDDLEWARE + (env("ADD_REMOTE_ADDR_MIDDLEWARE", None),)
 
-try:
-    import settings_custom
-except:
-    pass
+BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
 
+STATICFILES_DIRS = [
+    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static_custom')
+]
+
+TEMPLATES[0]['DIRS'] = [
+    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')
+]