Configuring Django for production

In this section, we will learn about a few key configurations we need to set before deploying to production. We will first discuss the configuration we need to update the settings.py file:

• Update the SECRET_KEY value and pass it via the environment variable
• Set DEBUG = False for production so that sensitive information via an error stacktrace is not shown, whenever there is an error in the Django app
• Set ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["dip.com", "xyz.com"], and list all the domains that the Django project would be served on
• Set APPEND_SLASH = True so that if any request is missing a slash at the end, Django can add a slash automatically
• Set TIME_ZONE appropriately

There are a few more configurations that you can update in the Django settings. They depend on the Django project use case. Apart from the preceding mentioned settings, let’s learn about a couple of other configurations we need to perform:

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