Run in production modeΒΆ

This is a configuration basic modification, you probably need to adjust to your institutional security policy

Take a look django deploy documentation. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/deployment/

Change in academica/settings.py all variables that you want but especially this variables

Warning

SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!

SECRET_KEY = ‘*‘

SECURITY WARNING: don’t run with debug turned on in production!

Set debug to False

DEBUG = False
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["your domain", "your subdomain"]

Put your email account correctly

EMAIL_HOST = "yourhost"
EMAIL_PORT = 25
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'youruser@yourhost'

see Django email documentation. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/email/

Change paypal account

PAYPAL_TEST = False
PAYPAL_RECEIVER_EMAIL = "user-buyer@example.com"
MY_PAYPAL_HOST = "https://miserver.com"

We recomends to deploy in https for security reason

see this howto http://michal.karzynski.pl/blog/2013/06/09/django-nginx-gunicorn-virtualenv-supervisor/ if you never deploy django.

# https
SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER=('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=True
CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE=True