Using SSL and Apache on Windows together

[Robert Jonathan Šimon]

I was trying to find something on the web, but i didnt found anything. I want to use HTTPS with my Django project on Windows server. I have installed Django 1.6 a Python 3.3 64Bit. How can i configure SSL connection, and are there any problems with it?

Thank for all the help

[François Schiettecatte]

Jonathan

SSL is not something that is handled by Django but is further up the stack, you should check how to implement SSL with your Windows Server.

François

On Feb 9, 2014, at 6:43 AM, Robert Jonathan Šimon <berti...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was trying to find something on the web, but i didnt found anything. I want to use HTTPS with my Django project on Windows server. I have installed Django 1.6 a Python 3.3 64Bit. How can i configure SSL connection, and are there any problems with it?
> Thank for all the help
>

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[Arnold Krille]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 06:48:10 -0800 François Schiettecatte
<fschiet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> SSL is not something that is handled by Django but is further up the
> stack, you should check how to implement SSL with your Windows Server.

Actually its not that high (or low) on the stack. You don't configure
SSL in the OS (windows in this case), you configure it on the
web-server (apache in this case). And there are plenty of apache
documentation for that.

- Arnold

[Michael Manfre]

There isn't anything special about setting up Apache with SSL for use with Django. There are plenty of easy to finds tutorials about configuring Apache [1]. 

I gave a talk about running a Django project on Windows using Apache [2]. I ran in to performance issues due to the GIL and Apache on Windows being thread based, instead of process based. Sadly, there is no video from the talk, but the slides have plenty of information to get you headed in the right direction. If possible, try to use something other than Apache as the SSL end point, such as haproxy.

[1] http://manfre.github.io/django-on-windows-talk/

[2] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/ssl/ssl_howto.html

Regards,

Michael Manfre