Securely Deploy a Django App With Gunicorn, Nginx, & HTTPS

This directory contains the Django project created in the tutorial Securely Deploy a Django App With Gunicorn, Nginx, & HTTPS.

It requires Python 3.8 or higher and Django 3.2.

Here's what this repository and the tutorial illustrate:

How you can take your Django app from development to production
How you can host your app on a real-world public domain
How to introduce Gunicorn and Nginx into the request and response chain
How HTTP headers can fortify your site's HTTPS security

To get started, install requirements and migrate your database:

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -r requirements/prod.txt
echo "export SECRET_KEY='$(openssl rand -hex 40)'" > .DJANGO_SECRET_KEY
source .DJANGO_SECRET_KEY
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py check