Python Django Tutorial: How to enable HTTPS with a free SSL/TLS Certificate using Let's Encrypt

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[@vkakouras100]

Great Tutorial. Thank you Corey. In my case with Ubuntu 20.04 Apache server - I just installed certbot app plus the apache plugin with the command : sudo apt-get install certbot python-certbot-apache and all rest following precisely your guides. THANK YOU so much!

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[@dariogambi]

after this tutorial I had to solve a problem with my django application. that took a lot of time !! Thx god I found on internet the solution. I had an 500 error by apache regarding "Truncated or oversized response headers received from daemon". For those who had it you have to uninstall psycopg2-binary and install psycopg2 !

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[@coreyms]

I learn from multiple sources. The official documentation, blogs, conference talks, other KZbin videos, etc.

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[@Asrafulislam-dx5pf]

Awesome Tutorial. Thank You, Brother.

[@mohamedlahmar810]

if your example.com is redirecting you to the apache2 ubuntu default page, while your www.example.com is redirecting to https correctly, consider adding the following RewriteCond to your django_project.conf file, right underneath the rewrite rule provided in this tuto. RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =example.com RewriteRule ^ www.%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]

[@giustivibe]

Thanks a lot! This helped me solve this issue

[@giustivibe]

@@PlusTres Did you restart apache?

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[@ansarishazan4762]

at video time 5:15 , sir you are using "sudo nano /etc/Apache2/sites-available/django_project.conf" , this django_project.cofnf file is in your local machine? Please anybody elaborate if i am using public ip instead of domain name

[@NphiniT]

Hello Mr. Shafer. Parts of the procedure you used to install the SSL is now deprecated. certbot now requires snap to be installed which is then use to install certbot. the ppa repo is deprecated and python3-certbot-apache can no longer be installed from there. Could you please make an updated video. I ran into some issues doing it the new way. The SSL didn't work for the domain name without 'www', among other issues. Thank you again for your efforts

[@prateekbaheti8236]

Can you tell how did you resolve the issue with SSL not redirecting "www"?

[@NphiniT]

@@prateekbaheti8236 Did u include the 'www' url in the settings HOSTS list?

[@prateekbaheti8236]

@@NphiniT yes. I added "www" In allowed hosts. But it still opens default page of apache webserver when I try to open the site without "www". With it, apache loads the site properly

[@NphiniT]

@@prateekbaheti8236 So what I did was that I rewrote the redirect rule in apache. It feels like a hack. If you wanna see it, reply with ur email and I'll send to u

[@prateekbaheti8236]

@@NphiniT I tried mentioning my mail here but it seems that KZbin is automatically removing it from the replies.. Please share it here if possible

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[@BGivo]

Wouldn't this now be broken for the non-www domain or did I miss a step? Also, how could someone have known to comment out the WSGI code first?

[@vino-ef5om]

This solved it for me. serverfault.com/questions/294423/multiple-servername-per-vhost

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[@arunima2916]

Great Tutorial, Thank you so much!!!

[@LukeDupin]

Good video, but in 2020, don't use cron, use systemd. Also snaps are the preferred way to get certbot.

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[@charlieschiaffino4610]

Damn a year and a half since this video and it was seriously helpfull, thanks! =D

[@abo-khaled1440]

Thank you so much, your tutorial is great. I want only to do certificate for client so any one call my django web service must have certificate. thank you again.

[@geumgyuljuseyo]

thanks a lot for the detailed instruction!

[@masharialahmary7869]

first : thank you for your awesome video 😊 second : from where did you got nano contact ?

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Awesome bro thanks best video ever.....

[@pladselsker8340]

Thanks for the help!

[@icegreenedits4553]

How do I upload updates to my site? I want to keep making it further and dont want to develop it in the nano so how will I update the files with some more html or css? without touching to the database ofcourse?

[@riyazuddinsh]

Really you are a great tutor. Your work is very appreciative. I have a working site but having an issue that I have 100-200 user online at a time and accessing my server and I am getting a server hangup error. In the future, it is been expected to have 1000-5000 users accessing the server site per second. Please help me to handle the traffic.

[@catonalake]

Corey thank you so much!!

[@shiyan99s]

Hey Corey! I am curious if it is possible to get SSL Certificates without having a domain name and just the vps's ipv4.

[@marquezdrums]

Can anyone point me to a simple example of how to get ssl working with nginx in a docker container serving a flask app? All of the resources I've found so far are pretty confusing.

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Omg...i followed all the tutorial and It Is Just Amazing...what a great work...i have a question for you...do you know if there Is an integrated class/module that can handle the verification of the mail in the registration process? Nowaday all the website has It and i was wondering if Django gives a way to do it

[@akshitgoel2130]

sir after following you, I have received "Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page" and an address to this index.html, I am confused and want your help to get out of this problem. what I need to de to make apache point towards my homepage.html sir, I recently saw this that when I am typing www.mydomain.com then it is redirecting to https but when I am typing only mydomain.com then it is showing me "apache default page for ubuntu" . can there be anyway with which www and with www also this works.

[@jasminskamo3681]

In your .conf file that you created before certbot, comment the RewriteCond and change the RewriteRule to be RewriteRule ^ www.mydomain.com That should do the trick!

[@Nricaldi380]

@@jasminskamo3681 Thank you so much it fixed the issue!

[@fnasr]

Hello Corey, Thanks a bunch for this series. Extremely valuable information. One question I had was what's the difference between using Let's Encrypt versus a paid service, such as rapidssl or GoDaddy, other than the latter two being paid services?

[@ildar_eto_ya]

It's awesome! Thanks a lot to you! I have an issue with non-unique email's for users. It's allowed to any user to register with same email. Or i missed something? If i did, tell me, please, how did you solve it. Thank you in advance!

[@appykr]

Hello Sir Thanks for making these videos it helps me alot. I have a request can u make videos on Django sessions , sockets and middleware. Thank You

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Thank you so much for this much love

[@prateekgupta4636]

Thank You sir ,

[@helmholtzwatson8884]

I've never used cron as root but my understanding is that when you call cron using sudo: 'sudo crontab -e', whatever command you add is executed as root. That would mean that using sudo in the the command: 'sudo certbot renew --quiet' is redundant although I don't think it would do any harm. If you actually needed sudo, you would also need to manually enter your sudo password. Am I wrong about this?

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Corey, How to add favicon icon to this website? Somebody Help Me Please!

[@prajwalgautam3158]

So uploading our project to linode and make it run using apache server, how shall we edit out blog? I mean would you recommend to edit live server?

[@david0411]

When I enter the name domain everything works fine but when I enter the ip address I get the apache default page instead, any fix?

[@ConsuelaPlaysRS]

Why do you have %{SERVER_NAME} = www.myawesomeapp.com ? Doing this, when I access myawesomeapp.com (without the www), I got the Ubuntu default page. Changing it to %{SERVER_NAME} = myawesomeapp.com, it works both ways.

[@andersonl.s]

And what about if I want to load more than one domain at the same server? Is there a simple way to achieve this? (Like in a shared environment but no need for encapsulation)

[@rololop34]

thank you for this tutorial

[@lloydgarcia2201]

Hello Mr. Corey Schafer , I encounter an error after I apply SSL/TLS on the website. when I remove www on my DNS it's not redirecting to https with www can you help me to solve this problem? Thank you for your videos I've learned a lot.

[@subhashxd9895]

Thank you man

[@akashsaha3921]

i am using windows so can i keep up with your course?i can see the syntax for some commands are different than windows.

[@gurbanoglu5143]

After I run the following command: sudo certbot --apache I am seeing the following message: Please enter the domain name(s) you would like on your certificate (comma and/or space separated) (Enter 'c' to cancel): The problem is that I did not create a custom domain name that Corey did in the previous video. This being the case, what do I enter for the domain name?

[@yehonatan3000]

I think you can't. I did just the same and when I entered the IP address instead of the domain name I got an error of: The Let's Encrypt certificate authority will not issue certificates for a bare IP address. This is because IP addresses can be dynamically assigned, so your IP won't necessarily be your web application IP address forever.

[@csbnikhil]

Will you make a video on sockets for Python 3.x? There's a lack of good documentation.

[@asjadahmedkhan9661]

Hello Corey! Thank you for making these awesome videos.I need your help.Can you please tell me how to add link in our blog posts that can direct you to a particular website. Looking forward for your help in this . Thank you.

[@fawazsalah5985]

Thanks Corey for this tutorial! One issue I faced twiced is getting 500 Internal Server Error when I check my site, even after reinstalling apache and reinstalling OS. Have you, or others, faced this issue?

[@sedtec7647]

Instructions for getting https certificate # Install Certbot sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-certbot-apache # prepare apache conf file for HTTPS certificate ## Open django_project.conf sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/django_project.conf ## Set server name to ## Comment out WSGI in django_project.conf ## Save the file Ctrl - x - y - Enter # Get SSL certificate with certbot sudo certbot --apache ## Enter Email Address ## Type A ## Enter N to avoid spam emails ## Select using numbers your domain name ## click Enter ## Enter 2 to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS # Configure the HTTP and HTTPS conf files sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/django_project.conf ## Remove Alias and WSGI in django_project.conf ## Uncomment out WSGI in django_project-le-ssl.conf sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/django_project-le-ssl.conf # Allow HTTPS traffic through yout firewall sudo ufw allow https # Restart Apache server sudo service apache2 restart # Auto renew certificate with cron job sudo crontab -e ## Enter 1 ## Set time for job to occur 30 4 1 * * sudo certbot renew --quiet

[@russellclark7431]

Excellent series. Implemented SSL but Postgres now fails to connect. Followed help on the web but still broken. Can you point me to some help?

[@shaikveller1744]

Russell Clark - where you able to fix it? Stuck with same issue

[@russellclark966]

@@shaikveller1744 My problems MAY have been related to the fact that I (unintentionally) was working with Ubuntu 19. However I bought a new Ubuntu 16.04 VPS from Contabo, installed SQL Server NOT Postgres, transferred all my Django apps to SQL Server, installed SSL & it all works just fine. Sorry if this does not help you but I do not like PostGresql - I work mainly with SQL Server

[@RahulKumarr]

thank you very much for this tutorial. It helped me a lot as i am not able to find a proper tutorial for this. Can you please please also upload how to create sitemap.xml and robots.txt in this django project

[@mkanalysis]

thanks for your videos cory, my website stopped working after I created the certificate, I have postgres as my database. do you know why this might be?

[@shaikveller1744]

@mostafa8998 did you figure it out? Stuck with same issue...

[@et4493]

Absolute champ

[@JHL0L]

If you have problem with the Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page loading instead of your website or if you get "Connection not secure" at the https site, first try to clear the cache of your web browser. I just spent hours tinkering with settings and wondering why it doesn't work, and the only issue was that Chrome was loading an old cached site :))

[@TheUnderMasked]

When are you going to make comparison video for Django and Flask?

[@nys8260]

Thank you

[@Rayan-qo1vp]

THANK YOU! :)

[@MrA86S]

Hey @Corey MS thanks for this wonderful series, Any plan for making video over "Implementing Multiple User Types" in django

[@coreyms]

Not in the immediate future, but perhaps at a later time. I am currently working on a Heroku deployment video and then I am going to take a break from the Django/Flask series' to work on some Data Science videos.

[@pushkargarg7140]

Just one doubt. Do I need to restart my nginx server after the automatic renewal of the certificates using crontab?

[@cloudkamp2694]

I would like to see how to redirect traffic from a www version to a non www or vice versa please reconsider this

[@SeaTaj]

Can you do a video on Django Rest Framework?

[@ahlalfiqh]

Thank you dear ;)

[@minsik9614]

if I change domain name, should I do this whole process again? or only some part?

[@sameergaikwad222]

Hi can you make video for Manual Certificate Installation without using certbot.

[@marcocacone]

TI AMO ♥

[@amaarquadri]

For anyone else who (like me) has an issue where you can't connect to your website because it is "Taking too long to respond", make sure you enable port forwarding for port 80 and 443! Took me way to long to figure that out :(

[@rameshgundluru7579]

sir when running sudo certbot --apache , iam getting error like Client with the currently selected authenticator does not support any combination of challenges that will satisfy the CA. my certbot version is 0.17 only but it requires greater than 0.26 i installed certbot-auto but when running sudo ~/certbot-auto --apache Unable to find a virtual host listening on port 80 which is currently needed for Certbot to prove to the CA that you control your domain. Please add a virtual host for port 80. can you please help me to update certbot in ubuntu 17.10

[@akhillshetty2140]

Postgres setup tutorial, please!