How to disable Django's invalid HTTP_HOST error?

Question

Ever since I deployed a site running Django 1.7 alpha (checked out from Git), I\'ve been occasionally receiving error messages with titles like:

\"Inv

Answer 1

Here's NGINX example that should prevent your django from receiving rubbish requests.

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    server_name _;
    return 418;
}


server {
    listen 80;
    # This will keep Django from receiving request with invalid host
    server_name  your.domain.com;
    ...