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Django 2 Web Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Django 2 Web Development Cookbook 100 practical recipes on building scalable Python web apps with Django 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788837682
Length 544 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Aidas Bendoraitis Aidas Bendoraitis
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Django 2.1 2. Database Structure and Modeling FREE CHAPTER 3. Forms and Views 4. Templates and JavaScript 5. Customizing Template Filters and Tags 6. Model Administration 7. Security and Performance 8. Django CMS 9. Hierarchical Structures 10. Importing and Exporting Data 11. Bells and Whistles 12. Testing and Deployment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up cron jobs for regular tasks

Usually, websites have some management tasks to perform in the background on a regular interval, such as once a week, once a day, or every hour. This can be achieved by using scheduled tasks, commonly known as cron jobs. These are scripts that run on the server after the specified period of time. In this recipe, we will create two cron jobs: one to clear sessions from the database, and another to back up the database data. Both will be run every night.

Getting ready

To start, deploy your Django project to a remote server. Then, connect to the server by SSH.

These steps are written with the assumption that you are using a virtualenv, but a similar cron job can be created for a Docker project...
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