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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Environment-specific settings


ALLOWED_HOSTS

When DEBUG = False, Django doesn't work at all without a suitable value for ALLOWED_HOSTS. This setting is required to protect your site against some CSRF attacks. If you use a wildcard, you must perform your own validation of the Host HTTP header, or otherwise ensure that you aren't vulnerable to this category of attack.

CACHES

If you're using a cache, connection parameters may be different in development and in production. Cache servers often have weak authentication. Make sure they only accept connections from your application servers. If you're using Memcached, consider using cached sessions to improve performance.

DATABASES

Database connection parameters are probably different in development and in production. Database passwords are very sensitive. You should protect them exactly like SECRET_KEY. For maximum security, make sure database servers only accept connections from your application servers. If you haven't set up backups for your database...