diff --git a/allianceauth/settings/__init__.py b/allianceauth/project_template/__init__.py
similarity index 100%
rename from allianceauth/settings/__init__.py
rename to allianceauth/project_template/__init__.py
diff --git a/allianceauth/project_template/manage.py b/allianceauth/project_template/manage.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..843d8a7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/allianceauth/project_template/manage.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import os
+import sys
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "{{ project_name}}.settings.local")
+    try:
+        from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
+    except ImportError:
+        # The above import may fail for some other reason. Ensure that the
+        # issue is really that Django is missing to avoid masking other
+        # exceptions on Python 2.
+        try:
+            import django
+        except ImportError:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
+                "available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you "
+                "forget to activate a virtual environment?"
+            )
+        raise
+    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
diff --git a/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/__init__.py b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/allianceauth/log/.gitignore b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/log/.gitignore
similarity index 100%
rename from allianceauth/log/.gitignore
rename to allianceauth/project_template/project_name/log/.gitignore
diff --git a/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/settings/__init__.py b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/settings/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/allianceauth/settings/base.py b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/settings/base.py
similarity index 92%
rename from allianceauth/settings/base.py
rename to allianceauth/project_template/project_name/settings/base.py
index 1630d76a..20f52cb2 100644
--- a/allianceauth/settings/base.py
+++ b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/settings/base.py
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE = {
 }
 
 # Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
-BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(PROJECT_DIR)
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
@@ -172,7 +173,7 @@ ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
 DATABASES = {
     'default': {
         'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
-        'NAME': str(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'alliance_auth.sqlite')),
+        'NAME': str(os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'alliance_auth.sqlite3')),
     },
 }
 
@@ -228,7 +229,7 @@ LOGGING = {
         'log_file': {
             'level': 'INFO',  # edit this line to change logging level to file
             'class': 'logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler',
-            'filename': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'log/allianceauth.log'),
+            'filename': os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'log/allianceauth.log'),
             'formatter': 'verbose',
             'maxBytes': 1024 * 1024 * 5,  # edit this line to change max log file size
             'backupCount': 5,  # edit this line to change number of log backups
@@ -255,14 +256,3 @@ LOGGING = {
         },
     }
 }
-
-
-def add_auth_apps(APPS):
-    """
-    Merges required auth apps with a list of custom user apps for project settings.
-    Leaves order of passed INSTALLED_APPS unchanged (passed apps come first) to allow overriding templates/static/etc
-    https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/settings/#installed-apps
-    :param APPS: INSTALLED_APPS list
-    :return: Merged INSTALLED_APPS
-    """
-    APPS += [app for app in INSTALLED_APPS if app not in APPS]
diff --git a/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/settings/local.py b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/settings/local.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..614afede
--- /dev/null
+++ b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/settings/local.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+from .base import *
+
+# These are required for Django to function properly
+ROOT_URLCONF = '{{ project_name }}.urls'
+WSGI_APPLICATION = '{{ project_name }}.wsgi.application'
+STATICFILES_DIRS = [
+    os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'static'),
+]
+TEMPLATES[0]['DIRS'] += [os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'templates')]
+SECRET_KEY = '{{ secret_key }}'
+
+# Change this to change the name of the auth site
+SITE_NAME = '{{ project_name }}'
+
+# Change this to enable/disable debug mode
+DEBUG = False
+
+
+######################################
+#            SSO Settings            #
+######################################
+# Register an application at
+# https://developers.eveonline.com
+# and fill out these settings.
+# Be sure to set the callback URL to
+# https://example.com/sso/callback
+# substituting your domain for example.com
+######################################
+ESI_SSO_CLIENT_ID = ''
+ESI_SSO_CLIENT_SECRET = ''
+ESI_SSO_CALLBACK_URL = ''
+
+
+######################################
+# Add any custom settings below here #
+######################################
diff --git a/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/static/.gitkeep b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/static/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/templates/.gitkeep b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/templates/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/urls.py b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/urls.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ecff76d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/urls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
+from allianceauth import urls
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'', include(urls)),
+]
diff --git a/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/wsgi.py b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/wsgi.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e13622f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/allianceauth/project_template/project_name/wsgi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+"""
+WSGI config for {{ project_name }} project.
+It exposes the WSGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.
+For more information on this file, see
+https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/{{ docs_version }}/howto/deployment/wsgi/
+"""
+
+import os
+
+from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
+
+os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "{{ project_name }}.settings.local")
+
+application = get_wsgi_application()
diff --git a/allianceauth/wsgi.py b/allianceauth/wsgi.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 39a09438..00000000
--- a/allianceauth/wsgi.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-"""
-WSGI config for alliance_auth project.
-
-It exposes the WSGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.
-
-For more information on this file, see
-https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/howto/deployment/wsgi/
-"""
-
-import os
-from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
-
-os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "allianceauth.settings.base")
-
-# virtualenv wrapper, uncomment below to activate
-# activate_env=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'env/bin/activate_this.py')
-# execfile(activate_env, dict(__file__=activate_env))
-
-
-application = get_wsgi_application()
diff --git a/manage.py b/manage.py
index 7eec003b..6afed5b2 100644
--- a/manage.py
+++ b/manage.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "allianceauth.settings.base")
+    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "allianceauth.project_template.project_name.settings.base")
     try:
         from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
     except ImportError:
diff --git a/tests/settings.py b/tests/settings.py
index 01d68dcd..f653c0e3 100644
--- a/tests/settings.py
+++ b/tests/settings.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Alliance Auth Test Suite Django settings.
 """
 
-from allianceauth.settings.base import *
+from allianceauth.project_template.project_name.settings.base import *
 
 # Use nose to run all tests
 TEST_RUNNER = 'django_nose.NoseTestSuiteRunner'
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ NOSE_ARGS = [
 # Celery configuration
 CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER = True  # Forces celery to run locally for testing
 
-INSTALLED_APPS = [
+INSTALLED_APPS += [
     'allianceauth.hrapplications',
     'allianceauth.timerboard',
     'allianceauth.srp',
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     'django_nose',
 ]
 
-add_auth_apps(INSTALLED_APPS)
-
 ROOT_URLCONF = 'tests.urls'
 
 CACHES['default'] = {'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache'}