Django and SSL question

Question

I am planning to sell products by charging credit cards thus using SSL will be critical for Django-powered website. And I am very naive for this.

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Answer 1

I have deployed Django apps on SSL using Apache's mod_ssl and mod_wsgi.

I am no Apache expert, but here's how I setup SSL for one site (put the directives below in the httpd.conf file, or in a file referenced from that file, for instance in the sites-enabled directory, if that is used in your Apache installation). See the first documentation link below for how to create and use a self-signed certificate.

NameVirtualHost *:443

    SSLEngine On
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/certificatefile.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/certificatekeyfile.crt

    WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/file.wsgi

Documentation links:

• Apache self signed certificate HOWTO: http://www.perturb.org/display/entry/754/
• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_ssl.html
• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ssl/
• Using mod_wsgi to host Django: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modwsgi/