diff --git a/config/database.yml b/config/database.yml
index 3e0db65bae..8b2e68daf5 100644
--- a/config/database.yml
+++ b/config/database.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ test:
 
 #not used with heroku
 production:
+  adapter: postgresql
+  encoding: unicode
+  database: open_food_web_prod
+  pool: 5
+  username: ofw
+  password: f00d
+
+staging:
   adapter: postgresql
   encoding: unicode
   database: open_food_web_prod
diff --git a/config/environments/staging.rb b/config/environments/staging.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d874869398
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/environments/staging.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+Openfoodweb::Application.configure do
+  # Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb
+
+  # Code is not reloaded between requests
+  config.cache_classes = true
+
+  # Full error reports are disabled and caching is turned on
+  config.consider_all_requests_local       = false
+  config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
+
+  # Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
+  config.serve_static_assets = false
+
+  # Compress JavaScripts and CSS
+  config.assets.compress = true
+
+  # Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
+  config.assets.compile = false
+
+  # Generate digests for assets URLs
+  config.assets.digest = true
+
+  # Defaults to Rails.root.join("public/assets")
+  # config.assets.manifest = YOUR_PATH
+
+  # Specifies the header that your server uses for sending files
+  # config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # for apache
+  # config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect' # for nginx
+
+  # Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
+  # config.force_ssl = true
+
+  # See everything in the log (default is :info)
+  # config.log_level = :debug
+
+  # Use a different logger for distributed setups
+  # config.logger = SyslogLogger.new
+
+  # Use a different cache store in production
+  # config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store
+
+  # Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and JavaScripts from an asset server
+  # config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://assets.example.com"
+
+  # Precompile additional assets (application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS are already added)
+  # config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js )
+
+  # Disable delivery errors, bad email addresses will be ignored
+  # config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
+
+  # Enable threaded mode
+  # config.threadsafe!
+
+  # Enable locale fallbacks for I18n (makes lookups for any locale fall back to
+  # the I18n.default_locale when a translation can not be found)
+  config.i18n.fallbacks = true
+
+  # Send deprecation notices to registered listeners
+  config.active_support.deprecation = :notify
+
+  # force ssl site-wide
+  # config.middleware.insert_before ActionDispatch::Static, "Rack::SSL"
+end