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How to enable ssl in my droplet

I added an SSL certificate to my droplet domain, but when I try to open a URL it responds to http://raisze.backend.space:8000/admin and not to https://raisze.backend.space:8000/admin. I am a beginner please help.


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alexdo
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July 16, 2022

Hello there,

I’ll also recommend using Nginx as a reverse proxy for your Django application, on an additional note by using DigitalOcean’s App Platform solution all of that is handled for you.

You can check this question which was previously asked in our community

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-can-i-add-ssl-certificate-to-my-django-website

Regards

KFSys
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July 13, 2022

Hi @massivegreenbluescubadiver,

First, I’ll recommend adding Nginx as a reverse proxy and configuring the SSL in there. Here is an article on how to achieve that:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-16-04

From the article check only the Nginx reverse proxy stuff. Once you have nginx and configured to work as a reverse proxy, I’ll recommend to renew your Let’s Encrypt with Certbot and have it apply the HTTPS configuration to Nginx automatically. Running

  1. certbot renew

and then following the options should do the trick.

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