diff --git a/postgrestutils/__init__.py b/postgrestutils/__init__.py
index d3c1a1658253b4ec4af6e95e425ff76e6bd3484c..7e075e336a6ff44ce7925af53c3b82751c5f20d9 100644
--- a/postgrestutils/__init__.py
+++ b/postgrestutils/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import logging
 
-from . import settings
+from . import app_settings
 from requests import HTTPError
 
 logger = logging.getLogger("postgrestutils")
diff --git a/postgrestutils/settings.py b/postgrestutils/app_settings.py
similarity index 100%
rename from postgrestutils/settings.py
rename to postgrestutils/app_settings.py
diff --git a/postgrestutils/client/__init__.py b/postgrestutils/client/__init__.py
index 4767af51346fdb2df77695b0ad4da48b0a90b138..e385b1e613fb441c7aa2fbedb2ef389ffda36c48 100644
--- a/postgrestutils/client/__init__.py
+++ b/postgrestutils/client/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from . import postgrestclient
-from .. import settings
+from .. import app_settings
 
 # the instance of the client to be used
-pgrest_client = postgrestclient.PostgrestClient(settings.BASE_URI, settings.JWT)
+pgrest_client = postgrestclient.PostgrestClient(app_settings.BASE_URI, app_settings.JWT)
diff --git a/postgrestutils/wsgi.py b/postgrestutils/wsgi.py
deleted file mode 100644
index fa40d01d8f9d3bd8941c9209c344f88abe02eda6..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/postgrestutils/wsgi.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-"""
-WSGI config for postgrestutils 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/2.0/howto/deployment/wsgi/
-"""
-
-import os
-
-from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
-
-os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "postgrestutils.settings")
-
-application = get_wsgi_application()