Related

Join the DigitalOcean Community Community

Join 1M+ other developers and:

  • Get help and share knowledge in Q&A
  • Subscribe to topics of interest
  • Get courses & tools that help you grow as a developer or small business owner
 Join Now
How to configure URL extensions at Nginx Question Question
Dokku node app memory allocation error Question Question

Question

Creating a more secure website

Posted May 8, 2020 549 views
NginxPostgreSQLDjango

I have set up my first website using Django with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 18.04. I’m curious as to what further steps I could take to make my site more secure. For example how do I make my site HTTPS secure? I’m sorry if this is a dumb question. I’m pretty new at this.

Add a comment
davidbommersbach
By:
davidbommersbach

Related

Join the DigitalOcean Community Community

Join 1M+ other developers and:

  • Get help and share knowledge in Q&A
  • Subscribe to topics of interest
  • Get courses & tools that help you grow as a developer or small business owner
 Join Now
How to configure URL extensions at Nginx Question Question
Dokku node app memory allocation error Question Question

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

×
Submit an Answer
1 answer
KFSys May 8, 2020

Hi @davidbommersbach,

Let’s start with HTTPS, as long as you have HTTPS and the green lock in your browser, it’s considered fine. Now, this is not a real security for your website. It’s more for the clients on it.

If you want to secure your Django website, you’ll need to look into a couple of areas like:

  • Cross site scripting (XSS)
  • Cross site request forgery (CSRF) protection
  • SQL injection protection
  • Clickjacking protection
  • Enforcing SSL/HTTPS
  • Host header validation

Those are the areas, I’ll recommend you to explore. There are plenty of good tutorials which will help you secure it. For starters, I’ll recommend checking out This One

Regards,
KDSys

Reply Report
  • davidbommersbach May 8, 2020

    Thanks for the reply! I’m going through the tutorial you linked above and it is very helpful.

    Reply Report
    • KFSys May 12, 2020

      I’m so glad to hear that! Let me know if you need more tutorials which you can read on.

      The basic approach would be getting each point and finding anything you can learn about it.

      Reply Report

Related

Looking for something else?

Ask a new question Search for more help