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Published inApr 2024
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Arghya Saha
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Arghya Saha

Arghya (argo) Saha, is a software developer with 8+ years of experience and has been working with Django since 2015. Apart from Django, he is proficient in JavaScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Postgres, AWS, and several other technologies. He has worked with multiple start-ups, such as Postman and HealthifyMe, among others, to build applications at scale. He currently works at Abnormal Security as a senior Site Reliability Engineer to explore his passion in the infrastructure domain. In his spare time, he writes tech blogs. He is also an adventurous person who has done multiple Himalayan treks and is an endurance athlete with multiple marathons and triathlons under his belt.
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Optimizing Django Admin for production

While working with Django Admin in production, there are a few tips and tricks that you should follow to get the most out of Django. I have experienced a lot of challenges firsthand since developers bloat Django Admin with more and more administrative tasks. So let’s look at a few good practices and optimizations that can help us use Django Admin to its full potential.

Renaming admin URLs

By default, Django Admin is configured to be accessible in the /admin path. However, Django Admin has access to all the data of your website; this is why it is important to move the path from /admin to some unguessable path, such as /blog-cms.

Different packages let us improve security. For example, django-admin-honeypot (https://github.com/dmpayton/django-admin-honeypot) is a package that creates fake admin pages and tricks attackers into accessing a dummy admin interface.

Using two-factor authentication (2FA) for admin users

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804610480

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Arghya Saha

Arghya (argo) Saha, is a software developer with 8+ years of experience and has been working with Django since 2015. Apart from Django, he is proficient in JavaScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Postgres, AWS, and several other technologies. He has worked with multiple start-ups, such as Postman and HealthifyMe, among others, to build applications at scale. He currently works at Abnormal Security as a senior Site Reliability Engineer to explore his passion in the infrastructure domain. In his spare time, he writes tech blogs. He is also an adventurous person who has done multiple Himalayan treks and is an endurance athlete with multiple marathons and triathlons under his belt.
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