Securing your site with SSL/TLS
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is the standard for serving websites through a secure connection. The TLS predecessor is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Although SSL is now deprecated, in multiple libraries and online documentation, you will find references to both the terms TLS and SSL. It’s strongly encouraged that you serve your websites over HTTPS.
In this section, you are going to check your Django project for a production deployment and prepare the project to be served over HTTPS. Then, you are going to configure an SSL/TLS certificate in NGINX to serve your site securely.
Checking your project for production
Django includes a system check framework for validating your project at any time. The check framework inspects the applications installed in your Django project and detects common problems. Checks are triggered implicitly when you run management commands like runserver and migrate. However, you can trigger...
