Security Best Practices & Deployment

🐍 DjangoLesson 15Advanced

Deploying production-ready applications requires managing configurations, environment variables, SSL redirection, and serving files securely.

1 Deployment Settings Checklist

Python — settings.py

# Disable debug mode in production
DEBUG = False

# Configure trusted host routes
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["mysite.com"]

# Force SSL connections
SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT = True
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE = True
CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE = True

2 Code Challenge

Challenge: Configure WhiteNoise in your Django middleware stack to serve static files securely directly through Django application servers.